Will take up Web hate content with Pak: MHA

Despite strong indications on the contrary from sections within the government,the Home Ministry on Wednesday insisted that New Delhi would indeed confront Pakistan with evidence of the online hate content posted by its Internet community that had caused several thousand people of the Northeast to flee cities like Mumbai,Hyderabad and Bangalore earlier this month.

We have some evidence and we will definitely share whatever evidence we have with Pakistan, Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde told reporters here. The Home Ministry has drawn flak from other arms of the government for blaming Pakistan for the hate messages and doctored pictures and videos that were considered responsible for panicking Northeasterners living in other parts of the country.

Senior officers,travelling with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his trip to Iran,had said there was no evidence to suggest there was an organised attempt or conspiracy to spread hate and that New Delhi did not see this as a state to state issue.

Home Secretary R K Singh,who had first brought in the Pakistan angle,said he had never blamed Pakistan or any of its institutions for spreading hate. But even if individuals in Pakistan indulge in actions that leads to a law and order problem here,we need to take it up with the Pakistan government, he said.