Government of Pakistan's twitter account withheld in India

The Government of Pakistan's official twitter handle has been withheld in India.

The twitter handle shows that the account has been withheld in response to a legal demand. It is not yet clear what prompted the move against the official twitter handle of the Government of Pakistan.



Twitter withholds content that is found to be in violation of local laws based on requests received from authorities.

"In our continuing effort to make our services available to people everywhere, if we receive a valid and properly scoped request from an authorized entity, it may be necessary to withhold access to certain content in a particular country from time to time. Such withholdings will be limited to the specific jurisdiction that has issued the valid legal demand or where the content has been found to violate local law(s)."

Recently, the twitter account of Popular Front of India, which has been declared a proscribed outfit, was withheld in India.

In June, Twitter in India banned official accounts of Pakistan Embassies in UN, Turkey, Iran and Egypt.

Later in August this year, India blocked 8 YouTube-based news channels, including one operating from Pakistan and one Facebook account for posting "fake, anti-India content" online.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in a statement that the action was taken by imposing emergency powers under Information Technology Rules, 2021. The orders for the move were on August 16. The blocked Indian YouTube channels were observed to be using fake and sensational thumbnails, images of news anchors and logos of certain TV news channels to mislead the viewers to believe that the news was authentic.

So far, the central government has blocked over 100 YouTube channels, 4 Facebook pages, 5 Twitter accounts and 3 Instagram accounts for spreading hate contact against India.

(With inputs from ANI)