ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s foreign office announced on Wednesday the social media accounts of the embassy in Algeria had been hacked.
The tweet from the foreign office came after a bizarre social media post from the embassy’s accounts went viral, claiming the country had asked its diplomatic missions to divert funds to Ukraine to evacuate its nationals.
“The Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts of the Embassy of Pakistan in Algeria have been hacked,” the foreign office informed in its Twitter post. “All messages being posted through these accounts are not from Pakistan Embassy in Algeria.”
The fake social media post from the embassy’s accounts claimed no Pakistani had been evacuated from Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion, adding that Pakistani staffers at the embassy had not even been paid their due salaries.
This is not the first time the social media accounts of a Pakistani embassy have been compromised. Last December, the official Twitter account of the embassy in Serbia shared a message that criticized the Pakistani prime minister and made the same claim about the non-payment of salaries.
Dr. Arslan Khalid, who advises Prime Minister Imran Khan on digital media, clarified the situation on Twitter while adding that the foreign office was conducting an enquiry to determine how the social media account of its embassy in Serbia had been hacked.
