People of Pak’s Gilgit-Baltistan discover selves in India on tweeting from area

By India Today World Desk: People in Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan flagged that their location on the microblogging web site Twitter was proven as Jammu and Kashmir. They additionally claimed a number of handles of Pakistan authorities officers had been exhibiting blocked within the area.

Several individuals took to Twitter, claiming that after they turned on the placement function on the app, the tweets posted from the realm had been marked as ones originating from Jammu and Kashmir.

The glitch surfaced after a number of individuals tweeted that they had been unable to entry official accounts of Pakistan authorities in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Upon trying to entry these accounts, individuals claimed that Twitter flashed a message saying “account has been withheld in India in response to a legal demand”. The message is much like Twitter exhibiting banners on restricted accounts as effectively.

A Twitter person based mostly in Gilgit-Baltistan flagged the difficulty on Twitter as follows —

One of the Twitter customers mentioned that he was unable so as to add Pakistan’s location to his tweets and that solely the choice of Jammu and Kashmir was out there.

PAKISTAN AUTHORITIES ISSUE CLARIFICATION

After the glitch was reported, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued a clarification stating, “It appears that any sporadic issues encountered are limited to very few iOS devices, affecting a small number of users. These incidents are not significant and do not reflect a widespread problem.”

Reference information circulating on social media and sure part of stories media that Twitter has blocked entry to the Government of Pakistan’s official account in Gilgit-Baltistan and altered the area’s location to components of India, PTA wish to make clear that that the matterâ€æ pic.twitter.com/NXKaN3Anbn
— PTA (@PTAofficialpk) July 9, 2023

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