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New Delhi: Foreign secretary Vikram Misri locked his X account on Sunday (March 11) after he was viciously trolled on social media for yesterday’s ceasefire announced between India and Pakistan. No one from the Union government, including external affairs minister S. Jaishankar, has yet condemned the trolling or come out in his support.

The ceasefire was announced following a tense four-day military standoff with Pakistan.

Misri’s move came after right-wing X accounts called him a “traitor” and blamed him for India’s ceasefire with Pakistan, dug out old posts that he had shared of his family, and targeted his daughter for studying abroad and providing legal aid to Rohingya refugees from Myanmar.

Misri as foreign secretary helmed the Ministry of External Affairs’s briefings during the four-day military conflict with Pakistan following the launch of Operation Sindoor.

On May 7, India announced that it had launched Operation Sindoor with missile strikes on nine targets in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.

After four days of a tense military standoff including drone and........

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