PAK UNLEASHED CYBER TERROR ON INDIA EVEN AS DUBAI PEACE TALKS WERE ON
with the message—(india is against Sikhs/ Jinnah was
Right).
The idea behind using a Sikh fictitious identity was manifold, officials revealed—to malign the Sikh community in the eyes of the common Indian, and to lend credibility to the Twitter handle, as the majority of the protesting farmers were Sikhs.
As expected, once the tweets of this Sikh gentleman got amplified thanks to the efforts of the cyber team of Pakistan’s Tehreek-e-insaf (Pti)—the ruling party of Imran Khan Niazi—these were used by select Pakistani media outlets to run a full-blown story, in which one of the subjects was how “Jinnah was right” about the treatment of minorities in India.
The name of this fake Twitter account was Damanjeet Singh, who was tweeting with the username @Damanjeetasingh and was praising Jinnah and alleging mistreatment of Sikhs in India. And within hours, due to the fact that it was re-shared by the official handle of PTI, and by staterun Pakistan radio, it got more than 9,000 retweets and 31,000 likes. The post which had used #Indiashutdown was picked up by Pakistani news websites such as the Voice of Sindh, The Dailymail Pak, and