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The police and social media

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THE chief minister of Karnataka, Siddaramaiah, recently urged policemen to utilise social networking sites to reach out to the public during emergencies. We have commonly seen that in developing societies the institution of the police lacks the initiative to make optimum use of technology and social media. Extremist groups fight simultaneously at the physical level […]


Nawaz flays role of social media

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Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday expressed annoyance over incompetence and criminal negligence of police during the Rawalpindi violence and issued directives to the authorities to conduct a fair and neutral investigation into the incident. The Prime Minister issued these while presiding over a meeting on law and order. “The criminal negligence and silence […]


Banning hatred

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The federal government, on November 18, issued directives to ban the dissemination of hate material over the social media. This follows the violent incident in Rawalpindi on Ashura Day, when nine persons were killed when marchers forming part of a procession went by a seminary and mosque. As curfew was clamped down in the city, […]


Social media gets active

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RAWALPINDI: Many citizens think that denial of live coverage by the electronic media of Friday’s sectarian mayhem in the city saved the people from the worse. But, no denying, there were efforts to add fuel to the fire. Technology savvy religious zealots took to social networking websites to spread sectarian hatred, especially the Facebook and […]


Checking intolerance: Government ‘takes notice’ of hate content on social media

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ISLAMABAD: The government has reportedly taken notice of the sectarian and hate literature being circulated on the social media and decided to take action against anyone who propagates sectarianism through social media and mobile phones. However, authorities are yet to receive formal orders from the government. The news first appeared on one state-run radio channel that […]