The government has ordered blocking of more than 250 websites for uploading morphed pictures emanated from Pakistan to create communal hatred. Stepping up its drive against erring portals, more than 130 websites have been blocked till now while the rest will be blocked shortly.

A Pakistan-based hardline group is suspected to have been involved in doctoring images and spreading them across social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and You Tube to create scare among people of the northeastern region living across India. This has turned out to be the biggest instance of cyber warfare on India in recent times. The government is also planning to take up the international forum, the Computer Emergency Response Team-India's findings on the issue.

Most of the online content started getting posted from 13th of last month and fake profiles were created for spreading morphed pictures.

Social networking sites like Facebook and YouTube have informed the government that inflammatory contents uploaded on their pages originated from Pakistan. This was disclosed by Department of Electronics and Information Technology, DEIT in a statement in New Delhi yesterday. unrelated to the incident occurred in Assam.Earlier Home Secretary R.K. Singh has said it is difficult to say at this stage who were behind it but some photographs have names of one or two organisations of Pakistan.