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Pakistan may take back draconian ordinance against media
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 1 (ANI): Qasim Wadood, Additional Attorney General (AAG), representing the Pakistan government in the Islamabad High Court, said that the government has put the PECA (Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act) ordinance on the back-burner, media report.
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Pakistan's cyber-gag law Peca under fire: Report
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], March 1 (ANI): A provincial court in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Monday admitted a petition that challenged the controversial ordinance amending the country's Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) 2016.
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Pak journalists to stage sit-in outside parliament on March 1 against drac
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): Pakistan journalists have decided to stage a sit-in outside parliament on March 1 against a recently promulgated ordinance introducing "controversial" amendments to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA), reported local media.
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Pakistan: Government faces backlash over Ordinances to push 'draconian law
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 23 (ANI): The Imran Khan government is facing heavy backlash from all quarters for amending the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) 2016 through the promulgation of an Ordinance.
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Pakistan: Journalists union challenges PECA amendments in Islamabad HC
Updated : 4 years, 2 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, 2 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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Amendment to media law yet another desperate attempt of Imran Khan govt to
Updated : 4 years, 2 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, 2 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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Pakistan: Opposition, media bodies slam 'draconian law' placing fetters on
Updated : 4 years, 3 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, 3 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, 3 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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Two dozen Pak journalists prosecuted under PECA act in 2 years: Report
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 2 (ANI): A report of the Freedom Network launched on the eve of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, said that nearly two dozen journalists in Pakistan were charged in the last two years and most of them were prosecuted under th
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