Naeem ul Haque hacked

Last Thursday, the storm that Ayesha Gulalai created with allegations of advances and indecent messages by her own party chairman Imran Khan suddenly catapulted into a category five, when she alleged that PTI's chief of staff had also done the same.

Speaking to Shahzeb Khanzada, Gulalai claimed that Naeem ul Haque had sent her messages about marriage and that in the messages he had highlighted that he was 'lonely'.

Pakistan's social media was reeling, trying to grasp Gulalai's allegations when the unthinkable happened, Naeem ul Haque confirmed to his 400,000 followers on Twitter that her claims were true.

At 3:10 AM, he posted on Twitter:

"Should I apologise for discussing marriage with Ayesha Gulalai? No I don’t think so. Nothing wrong with that."

About forty-five minutes later he decided to add that "there was no marriage proposal as such to Ayesha Gulalai as she herself said in Asma Shirazi show just a discussion."

Frankly, I'd hate to be in Mr Haque's place right now. His party colleagues have claimed his account was hacked, while their flag bearer on social media - responding to the revelations - spilt some beans as well. 

It was so convenient though, that the hacker posted the tweets and then out of the kindness of his (or her) heart, deleted the posts as well.

I am not denying the claim that Naeem ul Haque's account was hacked.

However, let me add that accounts under my guardianship were once hacked as well. It took days with help from Twitter directly to regain control of those accounts. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) too was involved, as were the courts because they had to grant permission for records and information regarding where the accounts were being operated from.

All the while the accounts I'm talking about were compromised, the hackers were posting content and we were locked out. We couldn't post, we couldn't delete.

You see where I'm going with this?

I'll stop right here. I believe Pakistan's online users are smarter than the average Pakistani.

Mr Naeem, if you had the audacity to send messages to a lady who wasn't interested in you, and you admitted your actions in the dark of the night, don't deny them after breakfast, please.

- Ovais Jafar is a Multimedia Journalist, currently serving as Editor Geo.tv (English), Editor Multimedia, Geo news. He tweets @ovaisjafar

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