Following a press conference on August 8 by members of the opposition party's student wing, two notices, one purportedly from the Interior Ministry and the other from the National Anti-Terrorism Authority (Nacta), accusing student leaders of terrorism began circulating online.
The statement is false. The notifications are fabricated.
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On August 8, members of the Insaf Students Federation, the student wing of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), held a press conference announcing a student movement aimed at tackling inflation, restoring fundamental rights, and advocating for the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan from jail.
That same day, two alleged notifications began circulating on social media.
One of them, from Nacta, was dated August 8 and was titled “Threat Alert”. It said: “Some miscreants of PTI (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf) are mobilising their youth leaders to create law and order using students as frontmen.” (sic)
The purported notification further claimed that the student movement was being funded by “hostile intelligence agencies.”
The second notification, which was circulated a few days later and was dated August 10, purportedly stated that the government had decided to place the names of those inciting student agitation in the fourth list.
He also said that students would not be allowed to leave the city without permission and that their passports would be revoked.
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Both the Ministry of the Interior and Nacta have confirmed that Verification of geographic data that the notifications circulating on the Internet were not issued by them.
At Nacta, a senior government official, who receives regular information about threat alerts, described the notification as “100% false.”
He said the document bore the signature of Obaid Farooq Malik, who retired from Nacta two years ago. The official provided Farooq's retirement notice and clarified that Colonel Usman is now serving as deputy director of Nacta.
Verification of geographic data Farooq also spoke to him, who confirmed his retirement in 2022. Farooq explained: “When I was a director, I used to issue threat alerts. Now, someone copied the old format, inserted their own content and distributed it on social media.”
Separately, Verification of geographic data He contacted Qadir Yar Tiwana, director general of media at the Ministry of Interior, along with two other officials who asked to remain anonymous. All three confirmed that the notice circulating online was “fake” and had not been issued by the ministry.
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