Twitter Suspends Pak Defence Forum’s Account Over Anti-India Rhetoric

Twitter on Saturday suspended the account of Pakistan Defence Forum - a website dedicated to Pakistan's armed forces - after it posted morphed images of a Delhi University students with anti-India rhetoric.

The original image showed law student Kawalpreet Kaur standing in front of Delhi's Jama Masjid with a placard that reads: "I am a citizen of India and I stand with the secular values of our Constitution. I will write against communal mob lynching of Muslims in our country. #Citizens against mob lynching." But the morphed image posted by Pakistan Defence Forum showed the same placard with the message, "I am an Indian but I hate India..."

Despite Kawalpreet Kaur lodging a protest, the Defence Forum did not remove the image following which Twitter suspended the Forum's account. The verified handle of defence.pk belongs to the defence.pk website, which describes itself as a "one stop resource for Pakistan defence, strategic affairs, security issues, world defence and military affairs". The twitter handle had posted anti-India propaganda on earlier occasions too.