A judicial magistrate in Lahore on Wednesday sent a man to the physical custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for two days for allegedly running a smear campaign against the army and its chief after former prime minister Imran Khan. was for Ousted through a motion of no confidence
The FIA informed the court that the man had launched a campaign against the army chief through his Twitter account.
It urged the magistrate to remand the suspect for 14 days but the court granted the remand of two days.
The suspect was arrested by the FIA on Tuesday from Lahore.
Later in the day, the FIA was Arrested At least eight people from across Punjab started cracking down on social media activists, as they believed they were involved in a campaign against the army.
Action is being taken against the arrested people under the sections of the controversial Electronic Crime Prevention Act.
The FIA counter-terrorism wing swung into action after launching a campaign against the army chief on social networking websites following the expulsion of Imran on April 10 in the wake of a no-confidence motion by a joint opposition in the National Assembly.
Since last Sunday, the top trending hashtags on Twitter were targeting the military, the judiciary and the new government, and on Tuesday, tweets using those hashtags grew to 4.3 million.
“We have arrested some eight suspects in connection with the social media campaign against the army and judiciary from different parts of Punjab including Lahore, Multan, Faisalabad and Gujarat. More arrests are expected in the coming days,” an FIA official was told. dawn,
Yesterday, a meeting of Pakistan Army officials also took note of recent criticism of the institution on social media.
“The platform took note of a recent publicity campaign by some quarters to defame [the] Create division between Pakistan Army and institution and society,” said a statement from the army’s media wing.
It said the meeting expressed “full faith in the Constitution and the leadership’s considered stance to uphold the rule of law at all costs”.
The forum also emphasized that Pakistan’s national security is sacred. “Pakistan Army has always stood by government institutions and will always be without any compromise.”