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The government on Saturday said the bulk SMSes and MMSes that triggered panic among the northeastern people had been traced to Pakistan and a protest would be lodged with Islamabad. Pakistan is trying to create trouble by inciting people This exposes its attempt at cyber warfare against India, said union home secretary RK Singh.
In the MMSes, those who died in cyclone Nargis in Myanmar were shown as victims of the Assam violence. Seventy-six websites were identified with morphed images. Most of these were uploaded in Pakistan, Singh said.
The home secretary said the details would be provided to the external affairs ministry so that it could take up the matter with Pakistan.
The home ministry has banned close to 100 websites for carrying objectionable material and arrested one person to find source of the doctored MMS clips and SMSes.
The MHA has also asked Google to provide the IP address and other details of the ID from where the doctored photographs were circulated.
Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi said he suspected from the very beginning that foreign forces were behind the rumours. "I was saying from the very beginning that foreign forces were behind this," he said.
Police have arrested sixteen people in Bangalore for assault and spreading rumours leading to flight of people from the northeast.
MPs cutting across party lines had Friday spoken in support of people from the northeast with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declaring in both houses of parliament that everybody would together ensure that those from the region were safe in all parts of the country.
LINK-->> NE exodus: India to take up issue with Pakistan - Hindustan Times