{"id":20626,"date":"2024-12-02T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=20626"},"modified":"2024-12-02T12:41:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:41:03","slug":"task-force-formed-to-probe-anti-state-campaigns-after-islamabad-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2024\/12\/02\/task-force-formed-to-probe-anti-state-campaigns-after-islamabad-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Task force formed to probe anti-state campaigns after Islamabad protest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday approved the establishment of a 10-member Joint Task Force (JTF) aimed at identifying and prosecuting those responsible for spreading misinformation and inciting chaos following the recent protests in Islamabad.<\/strong><br><br>The formation of this task force comes in the wake of a series of violent protests organized by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in November 2024, which led to clashes between PTI supporters and security forces, and significant damage to the national economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The JTF will be headed by the Chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and will include key figures from Pakistan&#8217;s top intelligence and law enforcement agencies.<br><br>This includes representatives from the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI), Intelligence Bureau (IB), the Ministry of Interior, and the Federal Investigation Agency\u2019s (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday approved the establishment of a 10-member Joint Task Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - 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