PTI’s insecurity with rising of PML N as a social media
giant has left many in its rank with fear and is troubled with PML N’s growing popularity
on social media. It was in light of this PTI initiated a negative and false
campaign against PML N’s social media team. The campaign was launched on twitter
under #PMLNSocialMediaShame but failed to get public support and most of the
neutrals termed it as a cheap tactic to gain mileage on social media. The so-called exposed revolved around some
screenshots of discussion in facebook group which proves nothing about the
false accusation that PTI claims. The man behind all this ill propaganda is no
one other than Dr Awab who was also associated with production of fake documents
against journalists.
The reasons about launching this campaign were obvious.One
reason was PML N as a social media giant. PTI and PML(N) are the two Pakistani
political parties acting as social media giants. PTI is there on social
networking site since last 3-4 years whereas PML(N) just launched there
Facebook page in November 2011. Social media has allowed both parties to communicate
more effectively to the public. Many have termed PTI as a social media
terrorist because of their hostile behaviour towards criticism. As soon as you
post something against Imran Khan or PTI, you should be ready to have the
comment list filled with abuses by the PTI fans. To draw a comparison, PML(N)
has used its medium of social media responsibly and in an effective way.
Another reason was to hide the defeat of PTI as Justice (R)
Fakurdin G Ibrahim was appointed as Chief Election commissioner which was due
to PML N sitting in opposition.Imran Khan who was asking PML N to resign who realized
but failed to appreciate PML N’s role in Fakurdin Ibrahim’s in appointment as CEC. To
hide the embarrassment PTI initiated this campaign which was actually to cover
up Imran Khan shame!
One should realise that only limited audience uses social
media and work should be done on ground level rather than establishing a
Facebook government. PML N’s “Kal kay Quaid” seems a promising event for
finding leaders among youth rather than PTI using youth to abuse on social
media. Now as I have criticized PTI a bit, I shall be open to receive abusive
comments from PTI-wallahs
Majid Tamoor!
