The amount of anti-#Pakistan online content generated inside the country, mostly by supporters of a Pakistani political party, has for the first time surpassed similar content produced by troll farms linked to neighboring #India. /1
The quality and sophistication of the anti-#Pakistan content generated from within the country in recent weeks is more sophisticated and powerful than anything similar produced inside #India in recent years. /2
The sophisticated nature of the recent anti-#Pakistan campaign generated inside the country is in many ways at par with military-grade PSYOPS that states mount against each other, targeting key institutions of the country for internal collapse . /3
Sophisticated anti-#Pakistan online content generated within the country in recent days has in many ways outpaced the ability of Pakistani Government departments to counter it, leaving Govt officers divided between this internal threat and the traditional external sources. /4
The last part of the puzzle behind the sophisticated internal anti-#Pakistan campaign targeting pillars of the state -- aside from its sophistication in design and execution -- are the financial resources sustaining it; and estimated to be huge, raising disturbing questions. /5
The funding part behind this internal anti-#Pakistan PSYOPS becomes more alarming when placed in the context of signs of interference from several states that chose to openly side with the ousted govt in Islamabad. Media+diplomats from those states participated in this campaign/6
Lastly, a large number of individuals linked to state-affiliated think tanks, advisory bodies, natsec and the military, openly identified themselves with the domestic anti-#Pakistan online content, in an organized manner. /7

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May 2
سعودی سیکیورٹی حکام کے پاس شواہد بڑھ رہے ہیں کہ تین ملکوں میں مقیم افراد نے ایک منظم پلان کے تحت مسجد نبوی میں گزشتہ ہفتے فسادات کروانے کی کوشش کی اور پاکستان میں ایک سیاسی جماعت کے گرد ماسٹر مائنڈ ہونے کے شبہات ہیں./1

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تحقیقات میں سعودی وزارت داخلہ اور خُفیہ ایجنسیوں نے پاکستان کی وزارت داخلہ اور ہم منصب اداروں کے ساتھ اس کیس کے حوالے سے رابطہ قائم کر لیا ہے. سعودی صحافیوں کے مطابق دہائیوں صدیوں میں ایسا واقعہ نہیں ملتا. مکہ میں 1979 کے بعد عدم استحکام پیدا کرنے کی /2

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...کی کوشش کئی مرتبہ کی گئی تھی جس میں مختلف تنظیموں کے کچھ سعودی کویتی اور لبنانی باشندے پکڑے گئے تھے اور انھیں سزائے موت دی گئیں تھیں لیکن یہ کئی دہائیوں میں پہلی مرتبہ ہے کہ روضہ رسول(ص) میں ایسا واقعہ ہوا ہے. /3

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Apr 29
Actions and policies of ousted ex-PM #ImranKhan and his #PTIGovernment have led to arrests, denial of jobs, travel bans, and deportations of Pakistanis from #Turkey #UAE #France #SaudiArabia #China. All in just three years. The latest is Saudi crackdown on pro-Khan Pakistanis. /1
In April, ex-PM #ImranKhan's incitement was responsible for Pakistanis getting radicalized in two countries: #Turkey+#SaudiArabia. 🇹🇷 arrested 27 pro-Khan Pakistanis on Apr 12. 🇸🇦 has repeatedly arrested Khan sympathizers in 2019+2020+2021 & 2022. /2

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In 2020, PM #ImranKhan's followers launched online campaign against #Arab-#Israel peace agreement #AbrahamAccords, radicalizing young Pakistanis in the #Gulf who protested on streets in #UAE & #SaudiArabia, leading to loss of jobs, expulsions, visa bans/3

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Apr 27
April is proving to be a historic month in modern history of #Pakistan. After Supreme Court intervention and Parliament vote that ousted ex-PM for first time in 75 years, 🇵🇰 now has the youngest Foreign Minister in its history: @BBhuttoZardari. /1

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This image, courtesy @PresOfPakistan, is another first for #Pakistan and exemplifies how PM @CMShehbaz is uniting a politically divided 🇵🇰: a @PTIofficial President joins a @pmln_org Prime Minister in administering oath to a @PPP_Org Foreign Minister. /2
History made: Another reason why this April and this Foreign Minister is significant. This illustration shared by Senator @SeharKamran shows @BBhuttoZardari, his mother the late PM 🇵🇰, and his grandfather, ex-PM & ex-FM of #Pakistan, taking oath to serve/3
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Apr 25
Ex-PM #ImranKhan dragged #Cuba into domestic #Pakistan politics by using sanctions on Cuban people as something Pakistanis should look up to. This cynical analogy was unfair to both great nations. One more damage from the previous govt added to PM @CMShehbaz's repair list.
Federal Minister @betterpakistan represents many Pakistanis who believe #Pakistan should not be like #Cuba/#NorthKorea; and is within his rights to respond to the statement by ex-PM #ImranKhan who advised Pakistanis at an international forum to learn to live under sanctions.
#Pakistan and #Cuba enjoy excellent ties. But first the ex-PM dragged Cuba into Pak politics, and when a Minister @betterpakistan responded to the ex-PM, the Ambassador of Cuba apparently indirectly came to ex-PM's defense. This looks like an attempt to meddle in 🇵🇰 politics.
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Apr 22
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#Pakistan's top security forum, the #NSC, attended by top Govt, military, and intelligence officials, chaired by PM @CMShehbaz, concludes there is no "foreign conspiracy" behind ex-PM #ImranKhan's exit from power after he lost parliamentary majority and was voted out. /1
Ex-PM #ImranKhan's conspiracy claim debunked by #Pakistan's top security forum:

"NSC discussed telegram from 🇵🇰 Emb in 🇺🇸 (...) informed by premier security agencies they found no evidence of any conspiracy (...) The NSC (...) concludes there has been no foreign conspiracy." /2
Today's National Security Committee of the Cabinet is more credible than the Mar 31 meet that ex-PM #ImranKhan politicized. This meeting is strengthened by the presence of Amb @asadmk17, ex-Washington, the Amb who wrote the cable and briefed the NSC. /3
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Ex-PM #ImranKhan addressing a rally. Entire focus is on incitement, using vocabulary reminiscent of 1960s Mideast: conspiracy+colonialism+anti-Americanism+religion; & 15yo drone attacks. Xenophobia was used as a political tool for yrs. Khan has hijacked it to unsettle #Pakistan.
Besides the above, ex-PM's strategy is to present himself as a victim of alleged international conspiracy instead of accountability for why his govt crashed under inexperience+mismanagement, squandering an impressive 2018 victory. /2
Part of the victimhood narrative is a claim that a pro-#ImranKhan TV channel is blocked in cable broadcasts across the country. But moments ago, #Pakistan's TV regulator called out this disinformation: /3

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