Karachi: The Sindh High Court issued notices to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) and the deputy attorney general on Friday on a petition of contractual employees of the authority for regularisation. Petitioner Mohammad Naveed Sajid and three others submitted that they were appointed on contractual basis last year on different posts and working […]
ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) cannot afford to keep IT professionals on its payroll and has taken on schoolteachers and forest officials to manage its affairs. The ministry is also set to scrap over a dozen projects that have been suffering at the hands of ‘inter-departmental neglect’. There is a severe dearth of […]
ISLAMABAD: Amid government’s complete silence and FIA’s failure to track the faceless Internet thug “Khaki Power”, editor investigations of The News, Ansar Abbasi, has received a fresh email warning him “not to cross the red lines”. The “Khaki Power” using the same e-mail address –[email protected] — has also threatened another senior columnist, whom he told […]
KARACHI: Maharaj Grish Kumar is a man in distress. Someone has created a fake Facebook page of a prominent Sindh-based politician and they are pasting his phone number on inappropriate status updates. “My life is under threat,” said 44-year-old Kumar, as he appealed to the authorities to take action against the culprits. “Anyone can kill […]
RAWALPINDI: The joint teams of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) zonal office and FIA have seized illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) consisting upon 40 SIMs capacity three international gateway exchange and arrested two persons in Sadiqabad, Rawalpindi, on Tuesday. This illegal gateway exchange inflicted heavy loss to national kitty. The illegal gateway exchange was set […]
EVOLVING situations require constantly evolving regulatory mechanisms, and one area where Pakistan is lacking is in terms of internet safety — even though the World Wide Web and its benefits can hardly be said to be new realities. Last year, the Federal Investigation Agency received more than 1,000 complaints regarding cyber crime, particularly malicious stalking, […]
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has restrained the interior ministry and the Crime Investigation Department (CID) authorities from raiding the franchises of cellular companies that are allegedly selling mobile SIMs illegally. Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai, who headed the bench, also issued notices to the secretaries of the interior ministry, provincial home department, provincial police […]
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