Pakistani Accounts Unblocked Post-Op Sindoor Review: Government Reinstates Some.

Pakistani Accounts Blocked During Op Sindoor Reinstated After Government Review

Amid a significant change of events rarely witnessed since the operation Sindoor, a number of social media accounts and news channels in Pakistan which were earlier banned in India have allegedly been reinstated following a review across the government. The action follows a months-old digital crackdown that left many of the Pakistani sites inaccessible in India, including the leading news portals and accounts of celebrities with a large following on social media.

The first blocking of these accounts formed to be a part of the retaliatory activity of India following the terror attack in the Pahalgam tourist resort in April 2025, which caused a dramatic increase in the intensity of tensions and the initiation of “Operation Sindoor” (airstrike methods targeted at alleged terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)). Then India complained of Indian misinformation, anti-India propaganda and giving heckle-raising communally sensitive content by several Pakistani media houses and personalities at the time.

According to sources in the Indian National government, they have recently been conducting a form of review on the blocked sites which is to continue regularly. According to this review, some accounts were restored, especially those that could not be demonstrated to post anti-India content in the recent past. According to the government sources, this kind of a ban is not a lasting decision and can be re-evaluated on a routine basis, which is a normal process.

Some of the Pakistani YouTube channels and Instagram accounts who have been reported as being active again in India include large news outlets such as Dawn News, Samaa TV, ARY News, Bol News, Geo News, and Suno News, as well as the Instagram accounts of several Pakistani actors, such as Saba Qamar, Mawra Hocane, Ahad Raza Mir, Yumna Zaidi and Danish Taimoor. Indian users noted their return and this prompted a lot of speculation on a silent policy change or an end to temporary enforcement orders.

However, the environment remains fluid, as there is no statement to officials from the Indian government that indicated this resolution has been finalised. Without any official positioning, speculation is rampant, and outrage with many Indian users wondering “why the government is quiet.” Some stories indicate that many of the accounts were re-obstructed on Friday July 3rd, 2025, only a day after their unlocking, with government comments behalf of regard it as a “technical error” for briefly unblocking the accounts. This could denote either an ongoing internal process, or a reactionary response to a public backlash via social media.

Notwithstanding the unlocking of some accounts, government representatives maintain that majority of the 14,000 Pakistani social media accounts branded on different platforms, remain blocked. The unlocking was initiated by considering each accounts recent history of content, and their significance – in this case, those accounts that economically avoided ant India – were the only ones considered for unblocking.

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The whole incident frames the complicated relationship between national security, diplomatic relations, and control of information / disinformation across an increasingly digital realm especially during high heightened risk periods of tension and cross-border hostility. The jostling status of the accounts convey the fluctuating nature of such remedies and continued consideration by policymakers over content perceived as undesired.

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