PML-N Distances Itself From Propaganda Account Suggesting APS Peshawar Was Inside Job

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N) official Twitter account on Monday reported a fake account named Maryam Nawaz Fans. The account with over 14,000 followers has been running since November 2017 and tweets in the favour of PML-N. Some of the tweets are against the policy and political structure of PML-N.

On Monday 10 June, PML-N’s official Twitter account denied having anything to do with this fake account. It tweeted at 11:54am that the account was fake and should be reported and blocked by everyone.

https://twitter.com/pmln_org/status/1137976255142342656

The reported account had conducted a poll, asking who was behind the Army Public School Peshawar attack in 2014. The two options included the former chief of army staff General Raheel Sharif and the current Prime Minister Imran Khan.

https://twitter.com/ThinkTankPmlN7/status/1137613334922973184

Senior PML-N leader and former Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was the first to respond to the tweet. “This is very deplorable tweet”, he tweeted.

https://twitter.com/betterpakistan/status/1137944224014491648

Some two hours later, PML-N official account also announced that it had nothing to do with the ‘malicious propaganda account’.