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Pakistan: Journalists union challenges PECA amendments in Islamabad HC
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), on Tuesday, has filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court opposing the recent amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), 2016.
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Imran Khan govt faces backlash over new draconian cybercrime law
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 22 (ANI): Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is facing heavy criticism from the opposition, journalists and judiciary alike over the recent amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), 2016.
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Russia moving troops into Donetsk, Luhansk similar to 2014 annexation of C
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 22 (ANI): Russia moving troops into Ukraine's two breakaway regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, for peacekeeping missions might give rise to a situation similar to the 2014 annexation of Crimea, said defence expert Retired Major General PK Sehgal on Tuesday.
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Impatient, risk-tolerant people more often become criminals, says study
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], February 22 (ANI): Does a person's tolerance level to the people and situations around him have a bearing on his urge to commit crimes? A recent study has suggested so.
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Amendment to media law yet another desperate attempt of Imran Khan govt to
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 22 (ANI): Imran Khan government bringing in the amendment in the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, PECA (2016) through an ordinance is a clear indication of the government's desperation to avoid any parliamentary discussion on a law that has direct implicati
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Pakistan: Court slams federal Investigation agency for invoking Anti-Terro
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 22 (ANI): The Islamabad High court on Monday, lambasted the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), for wrongly invoking the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca to arrest journalist, Mohsin Jameel Baig.
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Mumbai Police arrests 4 more in pornography case
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 22 (ANI): The property cell of Mumbai Police Crime Branch arrested four persons including a casting director accused in connection with a pornography case involving Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra, informed police on Tuesday.
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New Delhi: Daughter arrested for murdering mother after latter stopped hel
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): In the Madangir murder case where an elderly woman was killed, Devyani (24), the daughter of the deceased, confessed to the crime and said that she killed her mother because she used to threaten her to disinherit her from the ancestral property, the Delh
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Uphaar fire tragedy: Court issues show cause notice to Delhi Police for 'm
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): A Delhi court on Monday issued showcause notice to Delhi Police crime branch for "misinforming the court" regarding sanction to prosecute businessman Sushil Ansal, convicted in the 1997 Uphaar cinema fire tragedy over purported fraud while getting his pa
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Pakistan: Opposition, media bodies slam 'draconian law' placing fetters on
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 21 (ANI): Imran Khan government's efforts to regulate social media through amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) has received flak from the opposition parties as well as various media and journalists' bodies in Pakistan for shackling the
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Pak media bodies reject 'oppressive' amendments to law stifling 'defiant v
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], February 21 (ANI): Pakistan media bodies have rejected the oppressive amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), saying it is a flagrant move to undermine the freedom of the press, speech and defiant voices in the country, local media reported.
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Pakistan: Maryam Nawaz slams Imran Khan over new laws 'to silence media, O
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 21 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz on Sunday hit out at the Imran Khan government over its recent move to make amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, (PECA) 2016 and the Election Act, 2017 saying they are
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