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Twitter suspends Pakistan Defence handle for fake picture of Indian girl
The picture was morphed and distorted, which sent out a completely negative message against India
- PUBLISHED: Sun 19 Nov 2017, 8:45 AM UPDATED: Sun 19 Nov 2017, 6:55 PM
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Twitter has suspended Pakistan's verified @defencepk handle for using a fake picture of an Indian girl.
The picture, which showed a woman holding a placard giving out message of the "secular values of our constitution", was morphed and distorted, which sent out a completely negative message against India, according to an ANI report.
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The handle deleted the picture some time later.
Other than running malicious campaigns against several Pakistani journalists/activists, defencepk was also morphing photos to further its propaganda: pic.twitter.com/qK7ZLQM29G - Naila Inayat (@nailainayat) November 18, 2017
I hope this is not official defence page of Pakistan otherwise there is a real security concern if you use morphed pictures just to spread hate across nations. Please put it down. - Kawalpreet Kaur (@kawalpreetdu) November 18, 2017
Earlier, in September, Pakistan used a fake picture to establish a false narrative. Pakistan's Ambassador to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi, replying to Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj's speech at the UN, showed pictures of Palestinian victims and tried to pass them off as 'evidence' of atrocities on Kashmiris.
The picture, used by Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN, was reported by a number of media outlets as that of Rawia Abu Joma'a, a 17-year-old girl injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza city in 2014. Rawia's picture was taken by award-winning photographer Heidi Levine.
