ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf has refused to hand over the twitteraccount of the Prime Minister office to the newly elected PM ShahbazSharif.
Shahbaz Sharif has to face difficulties as it was not handed over the PMOffice’s official Twitter handle, by the previous government.
The new government has to create a new Twitter handle — @PMO_PKlink — for the PM Office to provide information tothe people as the PTI had denied access to the digital media assets of thestate.
It is pertinent to mention here that the digital assets are owned by theGovernment of Pakistan.
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The PM Office’s previous official Twitter account, @PakPMOlink, was managed by the Digital Media Wing of theinformation ministry headed by Imran Ghazali. The account has 3.5 millionfollowers.
After the removal of the PTI government, the account was archived andrenamed “Prime Minister’s Office (Aug’18 – Apr’22) Archived”.
