Twitter has suspended the verified account of a Pakistani website after receiving complaints that the handle had tweeted a modified photograph of an Indian student activist.

Pakistan Defence's website (which isn't linked to the country's government) says its now-deleted Twitter handle was followed by almost 308,500 people. It calls itself a "one stop resource for Pakistan defence, strategic affairs, security issues, world defence and military affairs."

The website tweeted a modified photograph of Delhi Universiy student activist Kawalpreet Kaur standing in front of a mosque.

In the original photograph, Kawalpreet holds up a sheet of paper that bears this message: "I am a citizen of India and I stand with secular values of our Constitution. I will write against communal mob lynching of Muslims in our country #CitizensAgainstMobLynching."

Please take down this picture immediately, @defencepk. You are using a morphed image of a young girl and putting her life in danger. Dear @TwitterSupport, @Raheelk, @misskaul, please take note. Here's the original picture: pic.twitter.com/jec2GzXnmF - Shehla Rashid (@Shehla_Rashid) November 18, 2017

But in the image Pakistan Defence tweeted, the text had changed: "I am an Indian, but I hate India, because India is a colonial nation that has occupied nations such as Nagas, Kashmiris, Manipuris, Hyderabad, Junagard, Sikkim, Mizoram, Goa."

In its tweet, Pakistan Defence said, "Indians are finally realizing the truth; their country is actually a colonialist entity." It deleted the tweet later, ANI reported.

Kawalpreet Kaur thanked everyone who reported Pakistan Defence's tweet. She said the message in her original picture "shouldn't be lost in these dark times."

The account of @defencepk has been suspended by twitter for posting my unverified & morphed pictures. Grateful to all who reported it in large numbers. The message of the picture shouldn't be lost in these dark times. No nation wants lynchings & killings. Only bigots wants hate. - Kawalpreet Kaur (@kawalpreetdu) November 18, 2017

In September, Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan's envoy to the United Nations, showed the UN General Assembly a photograph of a Palestinian woman, and said she was a victim of pellet gun fire in Kashmir.

In fact, Pakistan Defence retweeted a picture of Lodhi holding up the fake photo, without verifying facts.

Only weeks later, the Pakistan government included a picture of an Afghan mosque in a video exalting Pakistan's "mind-blowing sceneries, civilization, heritage, culture." Maleeha Lodhi re-tweeted it.

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