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Authorities in Pakistan have charged a person with cyber terrorism, in relation to disinformation that’s believed to have fuelled UK unrest.
Police instructed the BBC that Farhan Asif was linked to Channel3Now, an internet site which posted an article within the hours after the Southport assault final month which gave a false identify for the attacker and recommended he was an asylum seeker who arrived within the UK by boat final 12 months.
The article was extensively quoted in viral posts on social media.
Unrest broke out in England and Northern Ireland after the deadly stabbing assault, through which three younger ladies died.
On Tuesday, police in Lahore stated they’d questioned Mr Asif in regards to the article.
An officer instructed the BBC that Mr Asif stated he had written the article primarily based on info copied from a UK-based social media account with out verifying it. He stated that he ran the web site alone.
Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency has since taken up the case and can examine whether or not anybody additional is concerned.
