SARGODHA: The police claimed to have arrested an impersonator for creating fake Twitter accounts in the name of retired Pakistan Army officers.
According to police sources on Wednesday, the accused has been identified as Sadaqat Hussain, a resident of Shahpur, Sargodha, who used to operate fake accounts of retired army officers on Twitter.
The accused during interrogation also confessed to play fake voice clips of Gen (r) Haroon Aslam and Gen (r) Mirza Aslam Beg on social media.
The sources quoted the investigators as saying that he had been tasked with creating a division among the Pakistan Army officers on political grounds.
During interrogation, he also revealed that Shehzad Ahmed Mekan, a leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from Sargodha, had contacted him.
“The political party (PTI) added me to different social media groups and taught me to launch and operate trends on social media,” he told the officials.
He also provided to the law-enforcement agencies an audio conversation with Talat Kashif, Information Secretary of PTI’s Canada Chapter.
It is important mention here that Twitter is full of fake accounts as the fraud and deception has taken the form of a business on the social media platform.
The noose around those involved in creating fake accounts has now been tightened.
