Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan among Pakan cricketers to get Instagram blocked in India | Cricket News
Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Wasim Akram joined the l of Pakan players who got their Instagram handle blocked in India as the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack continued on Friday. The l of restricted accounts also includes Test captain Shan Masood, pacers Hasan Ali and Naseem Shah, batter Imam-ul-Haq, all rounder Shadab Khan and former stars Shoaib Akhtar and Shahid Afridi. Also, the account of Pakan’s former Prime Miner and cricket captain Imran Khan is also now inaccessible in India.
Users attempting to access their Instagram page from India are met with the message: “Account not available in India. This is because we complied with a legal request to restrict this content.” “We received a legal request to restrict this content. We reviewed it against our policies and conducted a legal and human rights assessment. After the review, we restricted access to the content in the location where it goes against local law,” added the note from Instagram.
Twenty-six people, mostly tours, were killed and several injured when terrors opened fire at a meadow near the popular tour town of Pahalgam in south Kashmir on April 22. The government has since cracked down on Pakani social media accounts that have large following in India.
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On Thursday, Pakan’s Olympic gold medal winning javelin thrower Arshad Nadeem also had his Instagram account blocked in India.
Earlier in the week, former Pakan cricketers Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi and Basit Ali’s YouTube channels were blocked in India following “an order from the government related to national security or public order”.
The central government officially blocked 16 Pakani YouTube channels for allegedly disseminating “provocative and communally sensitive content”. Dawn News, Irshad Bhatti, SAMAA TV, ARY NEWS, BOL NEWS, Raftar, The Pakan Reference, Geo News, Samaa Sports, GNN, Uzair Cricket, Umar Cheema Exclusive, Asma Shirazi, Muneeb Farooq, SUNO News and Razi Naama are the other Pakani channels banned in India.
