What happened: After Imran Khan’s departure from power earlier this month, PML-N Vice-President Maryam Nawaz said that the PTI’s “criminal ring” led by former Prime Minister Imran Khan was launching a smear campaign on social media against state institutions. The ruling party leader said in a series of tweets that the smear campaign and “lies” about a foreign conspiracy were propagated by a small group of people using hundreds of false accounts and bots. Click here to see people showing support for Imran Khan as they claim that they are ‘NOT a BOT’ Details: Maryam Aurangzab shared alleged statistics and wrote that Twitter identified PTI’s ‘bot army’ and marked their fake trend as ‘spam.’ Meanwhile, users from the platform dismissed the PML-N leaders’ allegations, Eshaal Raza (twt/EshaalR715) tweeted: “I stand with my prime minister and I am NOT a BOT. His hard work can’t go to waste that easily. Haters can hate, he’s the one and true leader that can save Pakistan and make a naya Pakistan.” Political analyst, Raheeq Abbasi stated: “I am Raheeq Ahmad Abbasi, I am not a Bot and I rejected this imported government which has been installed in Pakistan through the means of corrupt practices.”