Before the wipe-out, the last account that the premier had decided to unfollow was of journalist Hamid Mir, with rumoaurs rife among the netizens that the decision was taken amid scathing, and often sarcastic criticism of the government by the anchor.
The others handles unfollowed by the PM also include organisations that he is heading himself such as his party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital that he built in honour of his mother, and the Namal Institute Mianwali that he pioneered for the less privileged.
He also unfollowed fellow party leaders, including Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Federal Education Minster Shafqat Mahmood and Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari, as well as Planning and Development Minister Asad Umar, former close aide Jahangir Khan Tareen and confidante late Naeem-ul-Haque.
The prime minister has 12.9 million followers on the social micro-blogging site, the highest for any Pakistani in the world.
