LAHORE – Mostly women and children are being targeted by different types of criminals on social media websites and the authorities have failed to provide any relief to the victims so far. The cases in courts show that very few women approach appropriate forums for redressal of their grievances, including blackmailing and harassment on Facebook. […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Thursday once again directed the interior ministry and the Federal Investigation Agency to file their comments on a constitutional petition of civil rights campaigners against the alleged ongoing crackdown on social media activists under the garb of action against those who criticise national security agencies. Headed by Justice Hasan […]
DESPITE the alarming nature of the government’s recent crackdown on social media activists, our discourse still lacks a conceptual framework of thinking through some of the issues that it raises. Any inquiry should start by asking to what extent can the government justifiably regulate information markets? Answering this question when two competing forces — citizens […]
HARIPUR: The Facebook accounts spreading negativity and hatred on social media about the murdered journalist Bakhshish Elahi are being blocked after his murder. The social and media circles of Haripur have discovered the Facebook accounts involved in negative propaganda against the murdered journalist, requesting that these accounts must be thoroughly investigated in the process of […]
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing blasphemous content about Islam on social media, a government prosecutor said – the first such prosecution in the country. There is scant detail on the case beyond the fact that the accused was a 30 year old Shia from Bahawalpur. Little can […]
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced a man to death for sharing blasphemous content about Islam on social media, a government prosecutor said. ATC Judge Shabir Ahmed announced the sentence for the 30-year-old accused in Bahawalpur, according to Shafiq Qureshi. The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) had arrested the accused, who belongs to the Shia […]
ISLAMABAD – Marriyum Aurangzeb, Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, has stressed the need for an effective use of digital media to promote and project Pakistan’s narrative and image as soft, moderate and democratic country at the global level. She was chairing a high level meeting here on Wednesday. In this regard, […]
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has identified 27 people involved in anti-army propaganda and would also submit its report on the misuse of social media to malign the country’s armed forces in the next two weeks to the interior ministry. Sources in the FIA told The Express Tribune that the agency has identified 27 […]
PESHAWAR: A single-member Peshawar High Court bench on Friday dismissed the bail petition of a former army officer charged under the cybercrime law for allegedly uploading fake objectionable pictures of a woman MPA on social media. Justice Waqar Ahmad Seth pronounced that the suspect, retired major Mohammad Tahir Khan, was not entitled to be set […]
Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) in a letter to JokoWidodo, President of Indonesia expressed serious concern over the threats to netizens by the members of Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) for posting their opinion against Rizieq Shihab, the grand mufti of FPI. PPF Secretary General Owais Aslam Ali in his letter condemns the intimidations, violence and terror […]
The arrival of the internet is, no doubt, the most defining moment in our history. Social media tools, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WhatsApp, have become powerful instruments to play a prominent role in fuelling social change – both negative and positive. Digital technology and social media had facilitated Obama’s presidential election campaign. It also […]
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday obtained a two-day physical remand of an activist arrested for allegedly criticising the armed forces on social media. “We have got a two-day physical remand of Adnan Afzal Qureshi from a magistrate to interrogate him,” FIA cybercrime wing Lahore Inspector Rizwan Arshad told Dawn. Qureshi was arrested […]
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested an activist in the first case in its campaign to crack down on social media users criticising the country’s armed forces on different digital platforms. The FIA’s cybercrime wing arrested Adnan Afzal Qureshi in the Defence Housing Authority on Tuesday and charged him under Sections 20 and 24 […]
They exist in plain sight, just one search and one click away from any of Pakistan’s 25 million Facebook users. An investigation carried out by Dawn across the month of April 2017 has revealed that 41 of Pakistan’s 64 banned outfits are present on Facebook in the form of hundreds of pages, groups and individual […]
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