PTI Denies Access to PM’s Twitter handle to PML-N Govt: sources

We all know the current political situation happening in the country. PML-N’s Shahbaz Sharif has become the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan. However, the new government has to face difficulties as the supporters of the PTI are continuously opposing the new PM. Not only this but the previous government is also not willing to hand over the control of various digital assets, including the PM Office’s official Twitter handle. The new government has to create a new Twitter handle — @PMO_PK — for the PM Office to provide information to the people as the PTI had denied access to the PM office’s Twitter handle.

PTI Denies Access to PM’s Twitter handle to PML-N Govt: sources

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It is worth mentioning here that the Government of Pakistan owned the digital assets. The PM Office’s previous official Twitter account, @PakPMO, was managed by the Digital Media Wing of the information ministry headed by Imran Ghazali. The account has 3.5 million followers.

After the removal of the PTI government, the account was archived and renamed “Prime Minister’s Office (Aug’18 – Apr’22) Archived”.

Giving his input about the digital archiving policy, former PM’s focal person on digital media, Dr Arsalan Khalid told that the official social media handles are “state’s property” and are attached with “.gov emails”. He further added that these accounts will follow the US archiving format.

On the other hand, the former focal person for digital media, Azhar Mashwani, revealed that back in 2018, the PML-N government has also not handed over the govt accounts which is also a criminal offence. Whereas, the @PakPMO account represented the Imran Khan’s office and has been achieved as per global practice.

Govt's account @GovtofPakistan has been handed over to Info Ministry.@GovtofPunjabPK as well.
(PMLN didn't handover Govt accounts in 2018 which is criminal offence).@PakPMO account represented @ImranKhanPTI's office, like @POTUS, & has been archived, as per global practice. https://t.co/pRjMcuPWpc

— Azhar Mashwani (@MashwaniAzhar) April 12, 2022

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