The removal of Kashmir’s special status has irked Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan so much so that 90 per cent of his tweets since then have targeted India.

On August 5, the Centre scrapped Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir and bifurcated the state into two Union territories. Ever since, the Pakistan PM has been crying hoarse against India in his speeches and tweets, India Today Data Intelligence Unit (DIU) has found.

DIU analysed Imran Khan’s tweets from August 5 till September 1 and found that 90 per cent of them targeted India, mostly on the Kashmir issue.

Focus on Kashmir’ and Modi’

From August 5 to September 1, Imran Khan tweeted 67 times. Of these, 60 tweets (90 per cent) had a direct reference to India. Among these, 49 tweets contained the words Kashmir’/’Kashmiris’.

Imran Khan mentioned Kashmir’ 35 times in all. Kashmir’ is followed by world’ (27), people’ (20), occupied’ (20), Kashmiris’ (20), India’ (20), Modi’ (17), ideology’ (16), Muslims’ (14), RSS’ (12), IOK’ (12) and Hindu’ (11).

Clubbed together, the tally for the words Kashmir’, Kashmiri(s)’ and IOK’ (sic) reaches 76.

Not just Kashmir, there were several tweets in which Imran Khan targeted Narendra Modi. He targeted the Indian PM not only over Kashmir but National Register of Citizens as well. He also compared the RSS ideology with that of Nazis and Adolf Hitler.

There is also a communal colour to Imran Khan’s tweets. In most tweets where he used the word Muslims’, he used it in the context of them being victims in India, while Hindu(s)’ and RSS’ are the evils. RSS’, Hindu(s)’ and ethnic cleansing’ appear multiple times in his tweets.

For PM Modi, Pak doesn’t matter

In the same period, Narendra Modi didn’t pay any attention either to Pakistan or its PM. Scanning PM Modi’s tweets, we found that Imran Khan’, Pakistan’, etc. found zero mention between August 5 and September 1.

While there were 46 tweets mentioning Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh in various languages, none of them were directed to Pakistan or Imran Khan.

The percentage of PM Modi’s tweets mentioning Jammu and Kashmir was also low. He did mention the state’s name in the initial days when Article 370 was scrapped, but the number of mentions Kashmir received towards the end of August declined.

War of words on I-Day too

A similar situation was witnessed during this year’s Independence Day celebrations in both countries as well.

DIU had reported that while Imran Khan’s I-Day speech, delivered at Pakistan-occupied Kashmir capital Muzaffarabad was full of references to Kashmir’, RSS’, Nazi’, etc., PM Modi hadn’t mentioned Pakistan or Imran Khan even once in his entire 92-minute speech.