*LAHORE: The counter terrorism wing of the Federal Investigation Agency(FIA) has arrested 12 people for running a smear campaign on social mediaagainst sensitive institutions and their personalities on social mediawhile Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has also been asked tosuspend 4,000 accounts involved in the campaign. *
According to sources privy to the matter, the FIA has been handed over alist of 50 people who have been running a smear campaign on social mediathrough multiple fake accounts.
“Some accounts are even being operated from abroad,” they said and added,“the FIA will present the arrested suspects before court today.”
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Those arrested included three people from Lahore, and 12 from Faisalabad,Gujrat and Islamabad, they said adding that Shafqat Maqsood was alsoamongst those arrested and was managing 20 accounts on social media.
