Social Media being misused: Home Minister

Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has expressed concern to his Pakistani counterpart over the issue of social media-networking sites being misused by elements based in Pakistan to circulate false pictures and stories so as to whip up communal sentiments in India.

Shinde expressed these views when Rehman Malik, Interior Minister of Pakistan spoke to him today over telephone.  The minister has sought Pakistan's full cooperation in checking and neutralizing such elements.

The Interior Minister of Pakistan briefly spoke of the pending issues between the two Ministries and re-iterated his commitment to bring the masterminds and perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack to justice aswell over this call.