Pakistan’s armed forces have destroyed a total of 77 Indian drones, security sources confirmed on Thursday.
According to the sources, 29 drones were shot down by the evening of May 8. Since then, an additional 48 drones have been taken down between last night and midday today. The drones were reportedly involved in hostile surveillance and violation of Pakistan’s airspace.
Security officials said that the Pakistan Army is giving a “befitting response” to Indian aggression.
Social media platform X said on Thursday that it had blocked 8,000 accounts in India following orders from the government in the backdrop of the escalating conflict between India and Pakistan.
These include accounts of Pakistani publications – such as Dawn and Geo TV – and many journalists from the country.
“To comply with the orders, we will withhold the specified accounts in India alone. We have begun that process. However, we disagree with the Indian government’s demands,” X said in a post on its Global Government Affairs handle.
The platform also temporarily withheld the same handle – of its own global government affairs team in India – before reinstating it.
X said withholding accounts was not an easy decision, but it was doing this to keep the platform accessible to Indians, adding that the blocking orders were “unnecessary and amounted to censorship”.
The Elon Musk-owned platform said it was “exploring all possible legal avenues”.
X is already fighting a separate court case against the Indian government and has filed a lawsuit that accuses Prime Minister Modi’s government of misusing the law to censor content on its platform.
Separately, The Wire, a website often critical of the Indian government also alleged that internet providers had blocked its website on the orders of India’s IT ministry, calling the move “blatant censorship”.
