ISI lodges complaint against fake Facebook accounts

December 02, 2014 10:59 am | Updated April 07, 2016 02:25 am IST - Islamabad

Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the military have formally complained to the authorities concerned against fake accounts of their chiefs on Facebook, a media report said.

There are a number of accounts on the website, supposedly belonging to the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif and Director-General ISI Lt. General Rizwan Akhtar and other senior officers, Dawn reported.

A military spokesperson said that with the exception of one account belonging to Director-General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major General Asim Bajwa, the rest are all fake.

PTA spokesman Khurram Mehran said that the ISI has launched a formal complaint regarding these accounts.

“Whenever PTA receives any such complaint, it is taken up with the relevant organisation for appropriate action, as per procedure,” he said.

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