Pak hand ubiquitous in hate campaign
21 Aug 2012
Around 40 per cent of all pictures or videos that have been probed by security agencies for triggering the online hate campaign were uploaded from Pakistan, a home ministry official said on Monday.
The ministry has ordered over 250 webpages found to be carrying the morphed images to reveal registration details and access logs of its subscribers who uploaded such content. These websites have also been blocked by the authorities.
"It has been found that in 38 per cent of the cases where this information was available, the provocative images were uploaded from Pakistan," the official said.
All except one social networking site that questioned the government's jurisdiction (Facebook) were working with the government on this issue, the home ministry said.
Home ministry officials said they intended to compile the technical data for Pakistan to back the charge that Pakistani nationals appeared to have played an important role in the online hate campaign.
Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik had earlier rejected home minister Sushilkumar Shinde's reference blaming elements in Pakistan for fueling the hate campaign as "unfounded".
