{"id":377591,"date":"2022-09-17T13:08:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T08:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=377591"},"modified":"2022-09-17T13:08:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T08:08:56","slug":"indian-blocks-government-of-pakistans-official-twitter-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/indian-blocks-government-of-pakistans-official-twitter-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Blocks Government of Pakistan\u2019s Official Twitter Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Shanghai Cooperation Organization\u2019s (SCO) Council of Heads of State (CHS) Summit, India has blocked the Government of Pakistan\u2019s official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>News of this became evident as an Indian journalist Suhasini Haider, currently covering the SCO Council of Heads of State (CHS) Summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, tweeted a picture of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Vladimir Putin of Russia in conversation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pakistan govt handle calls Putin-Sharif tete a tete at SCO the &quot;photo of the moment&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8cpVgPRJDN\">https:\/\/t.co\/8cpVgPRJDN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Suhasini Haidar (@suhasinih) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/suhasinih\/status\/1570693086766047232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/armeena-khan-tells-indian-trolls-they-cant-keep-her-off-twitter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Armeena Khan Tells Indian Trolls They Can&#8217;t Keep Her Off Twitter<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>The original tweet was shared by the Government of Pakistan\u2019s Twitter handle along with a picture. Suhasini Haider had quoted the tweet. So, moments after Suhasini Haider&#8217;s tweet, one of her followers pointed out that her quoted tweet isn&#8217;t visible. They pointed out that the tweet can\u2019t be seen in India as there is a chance it has been withheld in India.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This quoted tweet can&#39;t be seen in India it seems- it has been withheld in India.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Amarjyoti Borah (@AmarjyotiBorah1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmarjyotiBorah1\/status\/1570693584374071297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Later a screenshot confirmed the same, that the Government of Pakistan\u2019s official Twitter account had indeed been withheld in the country.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Autiqueering\/status\/1570693475439644672<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On September 13, Twitter\u2019s former security chief, Peiter Zatko, told a United States (US) Senate hearing that the Indian government forced the micro-blogging website to hire two persons who were likely &#8216;government agents&#8217; and had access to sensitive user data.<\/p>\n<p>Peiter Zatko alleged that Twitter had violated its agreement with users by giving access to their data to a government agent. He also told the hearing that it was his belief that the government agent placed at Twitter by the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) government was there to asses if the social media giant would be willing to agree with censorship demands.<\/p>\n\t\t<div class=\"p-alsoread\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"heading\">ALSO READ<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<div><a href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/beware-the-truth-modi-government-asks-youtube-to-ban-lynch-nation-documentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beware the Truth: Modi Government Asks YouTube To Ban &#8220;Lynch Nation&#8221; Documentary<\/a><\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\n<p>Later in June, Twitter in India withheld accounts of journalists Murtaza Ali Shah, Rana Ayyub, and C.J. Werleman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the Shanghai Cooperation Organization\u2019s (SCO) Council of Heads of State (CHS) Summit, India has blocked the Government of Pakistan\u2019s official Twitter account. News of this became evident as an Indian journalist Suhasini Haider, currently covering the SCO Council of Heads of State (CHS) Summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, tweeted a picture of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Vladimir Putin [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/indian-blocks-government-of-pakistans-official-twitter-account\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":377593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2199,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-377591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Twitter-banned-in-Pakistan-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Twitter-banned-in-Pakistan-758x455.jpg",758,455,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Twitter-banned-in-Pakistan.jpg",1000,600,false]},"author_name":"Ummara Sheraz","categories_name":["Featured","Social Media"],"title_text":"Indian Blocks Government of Pakistan\u2019s Official Twitter Account","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2199,1291&exclude=377591","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377591"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=377591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}