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| North-East scare: |
| North-East scare: Give us proof, we'll investigate, says Pak Interior Minister
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| PAKISTAN
, 20-August-2012
1:35:31 AM |
| Islamabad wants evidence from India on its assertion that morphed online photos and hate messages which created a scare among the north-eastern community last week originated from Pakistan; Interior Minister Rehman Malik has promised India's Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde an investigation if that proof is provided.
Mr Shinde talked to Mr Malik on phone yesterday and expressed concern over the "misuse of social media networking sites by elements based in Pakistan so as to whip up communal sentiments in India". He also "sought Pakistan's full cooperation in checking and neutralising such elements".
Mr Malik told NDTV, "No bulk SMS messages to India on Assam have originated from Pakistan... I told Shinde Pakistan knows Assam issue only from media." He said he had told Mr Shinde that Pakistan would cooperate "if India provides evidence."
Mr Malik also said, "He (Mr Shinde) told me that he has information that these SMS-es originated from Pakistan, but I informed him (Mr Shinde) that at an official level we don't have any such information. And if India gives us any information regarding this, we'll investigate."
Over the weekend, the Centre said a bulk of the rumours that that triggered a scare among people from the North East in cities like Bangalore and Pune, originated in Pakistan. On Saturday, Home Secretary RK Singh had said, "We have got a hold on the wrong messages, false images... Photos of people who had died in cyclones etc were circulated as victims of violence in Myanmar and Bodoland... We want people to know that a bulk of this was done from Pakistan. We will raise this issue with Pakistan. I am certain they will decline it but our technical team is certain."
A government report says social media and SMS-es were used to spread panic among people; the uploading and circulation of such content began on July 13, the report says, around the time when the ethnic clashes in Assam began.
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