Afghan diplomatic mission sources told BBC 2 staff members as well as a generic trouble concern human relationship received alerts from Google this month.
Last calendar week Amnesty International detailed attempts to install malware on computers as well as phones of activists critical of Pakistan's military. The regular army did non comment on allegations tidings services were to blame.
After the Google warning alerts were sent out, about other Afghan diplomat's e-mail trouble concern human relationship was hacked as well as made to ship out emails, without his knowledge, containing suspicious attachments.
The emails purported to comprise photographs of rallies past times protesters known every bit the Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM). In fact, the attachments seem to comprise malicious files, although it was non possible to download as well as examine them.
The PTM drive has defendant the Pakistani armed forces of committing human rights abuses inwards the country's struggle against terrorism. Protests convey been non-violent exactly controversial due to their unusually straight criticism of the Pakistani tidings services.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 source inwards the Afghan diplomatic mission told BBC he was concerned that recipients of the emails sent out from the diplomat's trouble concern human relationship could believe the Afghan diplomatic mission was linked to the movement. The 2 countries regularly bill each other of working to undermine the other's security.
The e-mail was sent to addresses publicly linked to a publish of political figures inwards Pakistan. They include a erstwhile information minister and a erstwhile police pull minister.
It was likewise sent to a erstwhile senator from a Pashtun nationalist party, Bushra Gohar. Ms Gohar told the BBC: "I know for a fact that all my accounts are beingness observed… this is condemnable." She added: "Parliament needs to shape a commission as well as await into what is going on."
An employee of the Afghan diplomatic mission as well as a erstwhile fellow member of staff were likewise both targeted past times a imitation Facebook profile linked to cyber-attacks.
