As ceasefire violations continue, social media war breaks out between India and Pakistan
Even as speculations of another India Pakistan war over Kashmir looms on the horizon, a different kind of a war has broken out on social media.
Social media more often than not reflects the prevailing emotions in the real world.
In the last 7 days India and Pakistan has been involved in fearsome conflict in the borders. The recent ceasefire violations by Pakistan that specifically targetted civilians has lead to the death of 8 people so far. India has retaliated strongly to provocation by Pakistan.
Now, the war has spilled over to social media. Patron of Pakistan People's Party Bilwal Bhutto raised the ante by blaming PM Narendra Modi for border situation and linking Gujarat to it. This was promptly rebutted by Indian tweets who trended #YoBilawalSoDumb on Tuesday night. Now Pakistan Twitter users have hit back and 5 of the top 10 trends in Pakistan are anti- India hashtags. Unexpectedly the most hate is generated towards Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Kashmir also making an appearance in the rants of Pakistan tweeps.
The anti- India trends currently trending in Pakistan are #CowardModi, #FreeKashmirFromIndia, #IndiaIsTerrorist, #BoycottIndia, #PMLNarenderLeague.
Indian Twitter users have also hit back and currently #BuzdilPakistan is trending in the fourth position.
While these hashtags trended as top trends on twitter in Pakistan, #BuzdilPakistan crept its way up to becoming one of the top trending hashtags in India.
#YoBilawalSoDumb trended in India on Tuesday Night after Bilawal Bhutto's handle tweeted,
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This is not the first time that a statement made by Bhutto has sparked outrage on twitter. Earlier too the Peoples Party of Pakistan head and scion to the Bhutto political family, Bilawal Bhutto made statements of taking back every last inch of Kashmir citing the grounds that like other provinces Kashmir too is and was a always a part of Pakistan.
However after Tuesday nights tweet, twitter was flooded with tweets mocking Bilawal Bhutto.