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NEW DELHI: Pakistan's machinery is into an war propaganda overdrive these days, circulating videos and messages aimed at whipping up anti-India senitments and chaos not just in Jammu and Kashmir but also as far as Nagaland, according to sources.

"Pakistan officials are busy shooting videos in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. Men camouflaged in uniform of our security forces are seen in these videos doing atrocities on men and women," said a senior functionary in the Ministry of Home Affairs.

According to him, these videos are being uploaded to the internet and shared to suggest that Indian security forces are mistreating civilians in Kashmir.

Officials also said that messages and videos are being sent to Nagaland insurgent groups, persuading them to raise their voice and demand freedom for Nagaland.

Pakistan's propaganda war is one of the reasons why internet connectivity is still not restored in Kashmir, says government sources.

However, the Jammu and Kashmir administration is gradually lifting restrictions on the movement of people, landline phones, mobile phone network folowing the abrogation of Article 370.

"As situation is improving, the restrictions are being removed. However, internet connections will not be restored soon. The Internet restriction is in place inorder to curb Pakistan's hate campaign against India through internet and whatsapp.

"Once internet is fully restored, Pakistan will try its best to instigate people in Jammu and Kashmir like what they are now doing with insurgents in Nagaland," sources said.