Twitter suspends Pak's verified defence handle for tweeting morphed image of Indian girl

Mumbai: Twitter on Saturday suspended the verified Twitter account of Pakistan’s Defence, @defencepk for uploading a morphed picture of an Indian girl.

Kawalpreet Kaur's original picture which showed her holding a placard with a message against public lynchings in India was morphed to display an anti-India message.

The issue came to the fore after Kaur pointed out that the handle was using a fake image.

Please report this page to Twitter. Pakistan Defence is tweeting unsubstantiated and my morphed picture to spread hatred across nations. I hope they understand that citizens across subcontinent want peace not terror and lynchings. https://t.co/9816p7BN9l

— Kawalpreet Kaur (@kawalpreetdu) November 18, 2017

“Please report this page to Twitter. Pakistan Defence is tweeting unsubstantiated and my morphed picture to spread hatred across nations. I hope they understand that citizens across subcontinent want peace not terror and lynchings,” Kaur had tweeted.

Pakistan’s handle then deleted the image, but not before it had sparked massive outrage across Indian Twitter.

The account of @defencepk has been suspended by twitter for posting my unverified & morphed pictures. Grateful to all who reported it in large numbers. The message of the picture shouldn't be lost in these dark times. No nation wants lynchings & killings. Only bigots wants hate.

— Kawalpreet Kaur (@kawalpreetdu) November 18, 2017

The news of fake images has been haunting Pakistan for a while now. Pakistan greatly embarrassed itself when its Permanent Representative of Pakistan Maleeha Lodhi held up a picture from Palestine at the United Nations to depict the “human rights violations” in the Kashmir Valley