In a bid to stop the Australian cricket team’s t<\/a>our<\/a>\u00a0of Pakistan, threatening messages were sent to the family members of an Australian player from an Instagram account based in the Indian state of Gujarat, reported\u00a0Express News<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n On February 26, a day before the Australian team landed in Pakistan, the family of a cricket player received messages, warning them of grave consequences for playing in Pakistan.<\/p>\n The account\u00a0jyot.isharma391\u00a0<\/em>was\u00a0<\/em>used to send the messages and is reportedly run\u00a0by a man named Mridul Tiwari, based in India\u2019s Gujarat state bordering Pakistan\u2019s Sindh province.<\/p>\n Tiwari works as an environmental health and safety officer in IMC Limited whereas his email address is\u00a0mridul.tiwari07@gmail.com.<\/p>\n This is not the first time Indian accounts were used to threaten cricket teams visiting Pakistan.<\/p>\n In September last year, New Zealand cancelled its tour and\u00a0flew<\/a>\u00a0out of Pakistan at the eleventh hour over security concerns. In a press conference afterwards, the information minister had\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0\u201cfake news was generated by India to scuttle the tour\u201d.<\/p>\n The threatening email was generated using\u00a0Proton mail and Pakistan has requested Interpol for assistance in further probe, Fawad Chaudhry had said at the time.<\/p>\n Following the abrupt departure of the Kiwis, England\u00a0had also postponed its visit to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a bid to stop the Australian cricket team’s tour\u00a0of Pakistan, threatening messages were sent to the family members of an Australian player from an Instagram account based in the Indian state of Gujarat, reported\u00a0Express News\u00a0on Monday. On February 26, a day before the Australian team landed in Pakistan, the family of a cricket player […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16858","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pakistan","8":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16860,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16858\/revisions\/16860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}