Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime Circle has arrested a suspect accused of running a hate campaign against state institutions following the Jaffar Express attack.
The suspect identified as Haider Saeed was arrested in an attack carried out in the capital’s Bani Gala area reported Express News.
According to the FIA spokesman, Saeed was found that shared derogatory material that targeted state institutions under the Jaffar Express attack.
In addition, the suspect was involved in promoting banned terrorist organizations on social media and sharing inflammatory content to support these groups.
The FIA declared that the suspect not only spread anti-state propaganda, but also issued provocative statements in favor of extremists. The agency has seized the suspected social media accounts and digital evidence of further investigation.
The FIA has promised to take strict trial against the defendants in accordance with the law.
Jaffar Express, with over 400 passengers aboard nine bogies, was on the way from Quetta to Peshawar when it was attacked in the Dhadar area Bolan -Pass on Tuesday, according to security sources.
It all started after armed guns forcing the train to stop in a remote, mountainous area of the province on Tuesday afternoon, with the assault immediately demanded by the forbidden Baloch Liberation Army (among others), a terrorist group behind rising violence in the province.
The attackers bombed the railway track before storming aboard the train, the security forces said.
Sources indicated that the railroad tracks had been destroyed with explosives, causing the train to stop, after which firing began, resulting in the driver’s death and several passengers.
Railway authorities stated that mobile networks did not work in the area where the train was located, which caused difficulties in communication ..
Following the terrorist attack on Jaffar Express, Indian and anti-national social media platforms actively began to spread misleading information and false propaganda.
According to sources, propaganda and fake news spread through old videos, AI-Generated videos, obsolete images, fake WhatsApp messages and posters in an attempt to encourage hysteria.
Sources show that a malicious campaign on social media is trying to panic among the public. Accounts on social media linked to terrorists are also working with Indian media to spread anti-Pakistan rhetoric.
Security sources stated that Indian media mislead the public by sending analyzes from self-equipped Baloch leaders sitting outside Pakistan. People are misled and the public is advisable to rely on credible sources of information rather than the misleading and fabricated propaganda spread on social media.