ISLAMABAD: Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Friday that as many as 32 men associated with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) have been rounded up for their involvement in propaganda on social media.
“32 members of the banned outfit have been apprehended in an overnight operation. These people were peddling hatred-based propaganda through fake social media accounts,” he revealed in a Twitter post.
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He added that more arrests are likely to be made soon as the government has launched a clampdown on fake news and propaganda.
رات ایک اہم کاروائی میں کالعدم جماعت سے تعلق رکھنے والے 32 اراکین کو گرفتار کیا گیا ہے یہ لوگ جعلی سوشل میڈیا اکاؤنٹس کے ذریعے نفرت انگیز پرپیگنڈا کر رہے تھے اور جعلی خبروں اور پروپیگنڈے کیخلاف بڑا ایکشن شروع کر دیا گیا ہے جلد ہی مزید گرفتاریاں ہوں گی
— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) October 29, 2021
A new phase of talks between proscribed TLP and the government’s teams ended in failure on Thursday.
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Earlier, Fawad Chaudhry said in his Twitter message that the government won’t hold talks with the protesters until they clear the roads and those responsible for the policemen’s killings are turned in to the authorities. He urged people to dissociate themselves from the TLP protests and not become part of the terrorism against the state.
