Leading media house in Pakistan, ‘Dawn’ was hacked by anonymous miscreants on Sunday making the channel to broadcast the Indian flag and a Happy Independence Day text.  The incident caused a stir on Twitter as netizens made the event a trending topic by retweeting it on the social media platform.

The incident took place around 3.30 pm on August 2 when a commercial was being aired on the channel. The normal telecast was hijacked with an Indian Tricolour flag along with the message of “Happy Independence Day” written. The flag and the message lasted for a while before disappearing.

The news channel later issued a statement saying that the matter was being probed into and a thorough investigation would be conducted. The Dawn administration refused from making a premature comment on the issue.