A series of tweets from the official Twitter handle of Pakistan’s embassy in Serbia targeted PM Imran Khan on Friday, alleging nonpayment of salaries to the mission’s staff for three months, prompting the Foreign Office to clarify that social media accounts of its embassy in Belgrade had been hacked.

Later, the embassy in Serbia also claimed that its account was hacked and a “baseless” tweet posted on it from a device in Karachi. The tweets were subsequently deleted and an investigation was launched.

The tweet from the embassy’s verified account stated: “With inflation breaking all previous records, how long do you expect @ImranKhanPTI that we (government) official will remain silent & keep working for you without been paid for past 3 months & our children been forced out of school due to non-payment of fees.

Is this #NayaPakistan?” The tweet accompanied a video parodying Khan’s “Ghabrana nahin hai” (don’t worry) slogan. In a subsequent tweet, it said: “I am sorry (PM Imran Khan), am not left with another option.” The tweets provoked a storm on social media until the Foreign Office issued a statement.

“The Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts of Pakistan’s embassy in Serbia have been hacked. Messages being posted on these accounts are not from the Embassy of Pakistan in Serbia.”

Earlier this week, data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics showed that inflation rose up to 11.5% in November from 9.2%, the highest increase in the past 20 months influenced by a record hike in fuel prices in October.

Massive depreciation of the Pakistani rupee fuelled import-led inflation. Prices of daily consumables have been rising consistently.

by Omer Farooq Khan in Times of India, Dec 4, 2021

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