Hafiz Saeed suspended on Twitter, new account pops up

The News Minute | December 8, 2014 | 12.35 pm IST | Updated December 8, 2014 | 17.09 pm IST Hours after the Twitter account of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed was banned, the leader of banned terrorist organisation, Jamaat-ud-Da’wah, claims he is back with a new account. The tweet also said that they would soon give out an 'Official Response on Twitter double standards.' However, the claims of the 'official account' is yet to be verified. This is the new Official Twitter account of Hafiz Saeed, Ameer Jamat ud Dawah -- Official Response on Twitter double standards soon — Hafiz Muhammad Saeed (@Hafizsaeedjud1) December 8, 2014 Earlier in the day, the twitter handle of Hafiz Saeed was suspended therefore he could no longer spew terror and violence through Twitter. After learning that a lot of instances of violence were either initiated or spread through Twitter, governments all over the world have been asking for suspension of such accounts from the social media including Twitter. There have been deliberations to suspend such accounts in India too.  The argument for keeping alive accounts run by people associated with terror groups including the ISIS accounts is that agencies track the outfit's movements through their activity on social media. The Managing Editor of TV Today Network, Rahul Kanwal had tweeted on Sunday asking why Twitter could not consider removing accounts of “globally designated terrorists”. He also asked if Twitter could suspend right-wing handles why could it not do anything with regard to terrorists.  Why doesn't @twitter have a policy against allowing globally designated terrorists from spewing hate on its platform pic.twitter.com/rg4GYqYHoN — Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) December 7, 2014 If @twitter can suspend some right-wing handles for objectionable posts, surely @HafizSaeedJUD crimes are greater Why differential standards — Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) December 8, 2014 Why doesn't IT Minister @rsprasad ask @twitter to take down @HafizSaeedJUD account? @milinddeora had promised. But nothing came off it. — Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) December 8, 2014 Voila. @twitter activism pays dividends. @HafizSaeedJUD account finally suspended. Don't know whom to thank but glad good sense prevailed. — Rahul Kanwal (@rahulkanwal) December 8, 2014