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An Islamabad district and sessions court on Friday remanded journalist Muhammad Khalid Jamil in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for two days after he was arrested last night.<\/p>\n
According to the FIA, the journalist was detained on charges of spreading \u201cprovocative narrative\u201d against state institutions through social media posts.<\/p>\n
The first information report \u2014 a copy of which is available with Dawn.com<\/em> \u2014 registered by the agency said Hussain was \u201cfound sharing and propagating highly intimidating content\/tweets on social media\/Twitter\u201d (now X).<\/p>\n It invoked Section 20 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca), which states: \u201cWhoever intentionally and publicly exhibits or displays or transmits any information through any information system, which he knows to be false, and intimidates or harms the reputation or privacy of a natural person, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years or with fine which may extend to one million rupees or with both.\u201d<\/p>\n The FIR also included Section 505 (statement conducing to public mischief) of the Pakistan Penal Code.<\/p>\n \u201cThe accused had knowingly misinterpreted and disseminates anti-state narrative by sharing false misleading and baseless information which are also likely to cause fear in the public and may incite anyone to commit an offence against the state or the state institution or public tranquility,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n It added that the \u201caccused persons including Muhammad Khalid Jamil propagated, promoted and glorified anti-state, provocative and hatred narrative against the state institutions.\u201d The FIA, however, did not name other individuals involved in the alleged crime.<\/p>\n The agency said such intimidating content of blaming and naming through social media accounts, is a mischievous act of subversion to create a rift between general public and state institutions to \u201charm the state of Pakistan\u201d.<\/p>\n It went on to say that through such intimidating content including videos, the accused \u201cattempted to provoke the general public against the state institutions including judiciary, by trying to create a feeling of ill-will among pillars of the state\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe competent authority has accorded the permission for registration of FIR so the case is registered,\u201d the FIA added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Islamabad district and sessions court on Friday remanded journalist Muhammad Khalid Jamil in the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for two days after he was arrested last night. According to the FIA, the journalist was detained on charges of spreading \u201cprovocative narrative\u201d against state institutions through social media posts. 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