The account's founder said on Wednesday that Meta had banned famous Muslim news pages on India's Instagram at the government's request and condemned the move as "censorship" as hostilities escalated between India and Pakistan.

Instagram users in India tried to access a message from handle @muslim (a page with 6.7 million followers) with the message saying: "India's account is not available. This is because we comply with legal requests that restrict this content."

The Indian government did not immediately respond to the ban, which was blocked after social media coverage of Pakistani actors and cricketers.

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Mehta declined to comment. A spokesman for the tech giant directed Agence France-Presse's company page to outline its policies to limit content when the government believes the material on its platform "violates local laws."

The development, first reported by American tech journalist Taylor Lorenz's Media User Magazine, comes after two decades of the worst violence between nuclear weapons India and Pakistan.

Both countries exchanged heavy artillery fire along their competitive borders after New Delhi launched a deadly missile strike on its Arch rival.

At least 43 people died in the fight, with New Delhi accusing Islamabad of fatal attacks on tourists two weeks after it was amid the fight.

Pakistan rejected the charge and warned it would "take revenge" those killed by Indian air strikes.

@muslim's account is one of the most followed Muslim news sources on Instagram. Khatahtbeh apologized to his followers in India, adding: “When the platform and the country try to silence the media, it tells us that we are working to hold their mandate accountable.

He added: “We will continue to record the truth and stand out for justice with a firm heart.”

India also banned more than a dozen Pakistani YouTube channels, allegedly spreading "provocative" content, including Pakistani news media.

In recent days, the Instagram account of former Pakistani Prime Minister and cricket captain Imran Khan has also been blocked in India.

Pakistani Bollywood movie regulars Fawad Khan and Atif Aslam are also out of range in India, with a wide variety of cricketers – including Star Batters Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan and retired players Shahid Afridi and Shahid Afridi and Shahid Afridi and Asim Akram.

The growing hostilities between South Asian neighbors have also released an avalanche in online misinformation, with social media users emitting images from irrelevant conflicts to outdated ones, emitting everything from irrelevant conflicts, mislinking them to the Indian strike.

On Wednesday, Donald Trump called on India and Pakistan to stop fighting immediately and offer to help end the violence.