ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing has launched a crackdown on social media accounts of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan’s (TLP).
According to a statement issued by the FIA, the agency has taken 12 people into custody from different cities including Islamabad, Lahore, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur and Nankana Sahib and opened an investigation.
The arrested individuals were suspected of involvement in uploading hate-inciting material and doctored images on the internet through the TLP’s social media handles. The FIA started monitoring the social media posts after which a man named Hamza Sheikh was arrested from Islamabad and transferred to a cell.
The others were arrested afterwards and the FIA was probing into the matter. those arrested were identified as Shahzeb Nazeer, Naeem, Ayub, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Hassan, Ghulam Shabbir among others.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said 32 activists of a banned outfit had been arrested.
In a post on social networking website Twitter, the minister said these people were spreading hatred through fake social media accounts. Fawad Chaudhry said that action against those spreading fake news and propaganda has been launched and more arrests would be made soon.
