Secunder Kermani

@SecKermani

BBC Pakistan & Afghanistan Correspondent (ex Newsnight) قل الحق حتى ولو كان مرا

Back where I came from. Kinda
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    Mar 31

    Full length BBC interview with on her first trip back to Pakistan, abuse on social media, and plans for the future:

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  2. 5 hours ago

    Quite an impressive cake at Camp Qargha in Afghanistan... Over 150 British officers and soldiers are based here

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    11 hours ago

    We are with the troops in - who are preparing to watch and celebrate the

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  4. Retweeted
    May 17

    Several explosions followed by intense gunfire rocked ’s # Quetta city Thursday night, a day after security forces there killed a senior pro-Islamic State militant commander along with two Afghan suicide bombers.

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  5. May 15

    He also denied any connection to malware attacks - and said they “just” traced IP addresses and sent fake FB login pages... whatever he’s done I hope he isn’t scapegoated for this...

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  6. May 15

    The man who wrote it confirmed to me it was real and he wrote it whilst employed at ISPR... however, he denied targeting human rights activists, only people “abusing institutions”

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  7. May 15

    This document is one of the most striking things discovered whilst investigating these malware attacks... it outlines the work of cyber experts on behalf of the Pakistani Army to “trace IP addresses” and “compromise” targeted accounts...

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    May 15

    "There was nowhere to be safe, neither by the fence or away from it" my colleague in Gaza

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    This happened too - pretty sure elites snipers know what and where they are targeting
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  9. May 15

    One of the pieces of malware would’ve sent stolen data to a server registered to this man in Lahore. He says he’s a Brit citizen... he said he wasn’t involved in any malware attacks, and that his details were falsely used... shortly after I called him - the server was taken down

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  10. May 15

    See this thread for in depth explanation of how Amnesty uncovered this hacking campaign - and what they found:

    We just published our latest investigation. "Human Rights Under Surveillance: Digital Threats Against Human Rights Defenders In Pakistan" - detailing an extensive and worrisome campaign of repression of activists, online and offline.
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  11. May 15

    This is “Mahrukh Zman” she requested the email addresses of a number of activists and then sent them malware disguised as her cv / thesis etc... she also targeted a senior civil servant who asked me not to reveal his name... shows this could just be the tip of the iceberg...

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  12. May 15

    This is “Sana Halimi” v likely a photo stolen from someone else... She pretended to be a friend of “disappeared” activist Raza Khan in order to send malware to one of his friend campaigning for his return...

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  13. May 15

    I’m going to share some pics of the fake Facebook accounts (now taken down mysteriously) involved in sending malware... please circulate so if any activists / journalists have been contacted by them - they know they may have been hacked...

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  14. May 15

    Amongst the discoveries we made as a result of Amnesty’s work: a cyber security expert employed by ISPR (Media Wing of army) admitted he was tasked with tracing IP addresses of “people abusing institutions” and sending them fake Facebook login pages...

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  15. May 15

    Amnesty managed to identify some of those linked to the creation of the malware - but not who was responsible for sending it to the activists... one of the victims we spoke to though was clear “this is the work of the intelligence services”

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  16. May 15

    Amazing investigation by that they shared with me... Tracing an extremely worrying orchestrated campaign of hacking attempts on Pakistani human rights activists who are critical of the military establishment:

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    May 14

    Nawaz sticking to his statement on Mumbai, PM Abbasi insisting he was misunderstood, the NSC rejecting it as "fallacious" and Shehbaz saying it is not the party stance. It's pandemonium out there!

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  18. May 13

    This is such a horrific story... A man in Baluchistan says he had eyes gouged out by his father and some of his brothers... Why?! Because he wanted to marry a girl they disapproved of... here he says “without my eyes what life do I have left” (via BBC Urdu)

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  19. May 13

    “Mumbai 26/11 attacks, an event considered as false flag attack by international analysts.”

    Libel aside, fake news...
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  20. May 12

    Possibly my favourite tweet related to my work since someone from the Telegraph saw me on air at Newsnight and asked when they started hiring reporters from One Direction...

    Replying to @SecKermani
    who trust a guy who misspells Sikandar?
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  21. May 12

    Sources in three different airlines have told a colleague they’ve been given instructions not to allow Manzoor Pashteen or a number of other senior PTM figures to fly to Karachi...

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