2024

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has partially suspended internet and mobile services since 15 November in several districts of Balochistan province to “ensure public safety and security”. […]

The Federal Investigation Agency’s Cyber Crime Cell summoned owners of two web platforms, Siyasat.pk and Raftar for allegedly “running continuous anti-state propaganda” on their platforms. Adeel […]

Owing to a serious data breach (in March) compromising the information of 2.7 million Pakistani citizens, six NADRA officials, including one grade-19 officer, were recently dismissed, […]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reportedly decided to block access to all the unregistered VPNs from 01 December. All the commercial entities, embassies have been asked […]

In a briefing to the Senate, Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi revealed that FIA’s Cybercrime Wing (CCW) received 1,426 complaints related to hacked whatsapp accounts since […]

Pakistan witnessed another round of mobile phone and internet disruptions. On 10 October, users of Zong cellular company faced disruptions to their mobile and data services […]

A cybercrime court awarded death penalty and imposed a fine of USD 2500 (PKR 700,000) to a resident of Gujjar Khan, Punjab after he was found […]

Mobile phone and internet services remained suspended for nearly 50 hours between 04-07 October in Islamabad/Rawalpindi amid opposition party PTI’s protest rallies. There were unconfirmed reports […]

Al Jazeera reported on Pakistan’s development and planned implementation of its internet “firewall”, in an attempt to regulate and monitor the internet activities of users across […]