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New Delhi:An investigative report published Friday claims the Pakistani Armys involvement in rhetorical battles on social media against its own citizenry, including judges, activists, and journalists...
Thereport, written by journalist Murtaza Hussain and Ryan Grim of DropSite News, uncovers how the Pakistan Army runs a covert online campaign called the Army Agahi Network, or Army Awareness Network (AAN), to target differentpeople and entities...
The report claims that the Pakistani Army has enlisted thousands of field officers to create fake social media handles to proliferate pro-military messages and level defamatory accusations and threats against critics of the army, members of Pakistans civil society and judiciary, and supporters of deposed former prime minister Imran Khan and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI)...
In recent months, as per the report,AAN targeted Judge Babar Sattar of the Islamabad High Court, who was one of the signatories of a letter in May this year, alleging that Pakistans military intelligence agencies were interfering in judicial cases involving Khan and intimidating and coercing judges to sway the ongoing legal proceedings against the former prime minister..
Additionally, the investigation publishedby the US-based sitealleges that AAN has increasingly targeted Khans party, accusing it ofhavingtieswithIndianintelligenceagenciesand disseminating antisemitic messages.The armys alleged campaign has reportedly also been shifting blame for Pakistans economic issues onto Khan and the PTI..
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