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Pakistan: Journalists union challenges PECA amendments in Islamabad HC
Updated : 4 years 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 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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Impatient, risk-tolerant people more often become criminals, says study
Updated : 4 years 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 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 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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Pakistan: Opposition, media bodies slam 'draconian law' placing fetters on
Updated : 4 years 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 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 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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Majority of unemployed youth have criminal records, says study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
California [US], February 20 (ANI): It isn't uncommon to open newspapers nowadays and see the shocking rise in crime rates. More so, crimes committed by young people. According to a new RAND Corporation Study, more than half of unemployed American men in their 30s have a history of being arr
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Pakistan: Sindh CM blames country's financial situation for street crimes
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], February 20 (ANI): Chief Minister of Pakistan's Sindh province Syed Murad Ali Shah on Saturday blamed the country's financial situation for the rise in street crimes in Karachi.
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Inter-Operable Criminal Justice system will make system more robust to tra
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): The All India Bar Association has welcomed the Centre's move to implement Inter-Operable Criminal Justice System terming that it will make the system more robust and help to track criminals, solve crimes and make India a safer place.
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Indian World Forum seeks immediate UN intervention for safety of minoritie
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 16 (ANI): Puneet Singh Chandhok, President of the Indian World Forum on Wednesday, wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, seeking "immediate intervention" for the safety of minorities living in Pakistan as they are repeatedly facing atrocities an
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