India, other countries behind PTI’s ‘anti-army campaign’: Asif

Islamabad (HRNW) Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has claimed that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) “social media warriors” along with India were involved in running a smear campaign against martyrs of Lasbela helicopter crash.

“Not only the PTI social media warriors but social media accounts based in India and some other countries were also supporting the smear campaign against the Pakistan Army,” he said while addressing the press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday.

The government ordered an investigation after certain political zealots and a section of social media activists launched an abhorring campaign on popular social media platforms to advance their personal and political malice, following the army helicopter crash on August 1.

The defence minister also said along with 529 local social media accounts, 18 Indian and 33 accounts from other countries had been traced that were supporting the malicious campaign.