Pak-based group hacks NIT Srinagar website

Amit Khajuria

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Tribune News Service

Jammu, June 5

A day after Pakistan's defeat in the ICC Champions Trophy against India, a hackers group from Pakistan called Pak Cyber Skullz hacked the website of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar on Monday.

The institute has launched a new website and the old link of the old website has been hacked. A message demanding “freedom for Kashmir” has been put up.

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The website was hacked at around 3:30 pm on Monday.

The hackers have put “GO MODI GO” message and said, “Do you know why you got hacked? Free Kashmir. Freedom is our goal.”

Calling Kashmir “militarised governance” the hackers have said that they (Kashmiris) just want “freedom from evils of the Indian Army.”

“Stop killing children, raping women and imprisoning the men. Every day 100s of innocent people are abused raped and even killed in Kashmir by the Indian Army, a third of the deaths are children. We don’t want war, take back your men, your guns and go back where you came from,” the hacked website reads.

The students of NIT believe that the website was hacked in the frustration of the ICC Champions Trophy defeat to India.

“It was shocking for all of us, when suddenly we saw the website of our institute with abusive language against our country and Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” a NIT student informed The Tribune over phone requesting anonymity.

“It shows the frustration of Pakistan and it’s mindset towards India and particularly towards Kashmir. Who is Pakistan to decide what Kashmiris want and how they are living here?” he added.

The institute administration was unaware of the hacking till late evening.

“Someone has informed me but I don’t have any information about it,” said FA Mir, Registrar, NIT Srinagar, when asked if the website is hacked.

The NIT Srinagar was earlier in the news due to clash between local and non-local students over India’s defeat in the T-20 World Cup semi final against West Indies last year.

Some local students had allegedly celebrated India’s defeat which led to the clash.

Later, during the protests, the non-local students were beaten by the police on the campus.