A resolution calling for “severe punishment” for “malicious and negative propaganda” against the armed forces was unanimously approved by the Senate on Monday. A ten-year ban from holding public office for anyone “found involved in negative and malicious propaganda against the armed forces and other security agencies of Pakistan” was originally demanded in the resolution, which was moved by PPP Senator Bahramanad Khan Tangi. But Tangi said in today’s session that he had changed the resolution to exclude the call for a ten-year disqualification and to pursue legal action instead. The “negative and malicious propaganda against the armed forces and other security agencies on various social media platforms” was a source of great worry, according to the resolution. The article emphasised the tremendous sacrifices made by the military and other security services in the fight against terrorism.