Govt to check TEXT,EMAILS ETC.. for all!

[Rank]

Govt to check text, emails against officials

ISLAMABAD: The government announced on Sunday a special campaign against those involved in spreading “propaganda” against senior government officials through emails and text messages.

Launched on the directions of Interior Minister Rehman Malik, the campaign seeks to curtail the growing number of emails and text messages questioning the leadership of the government. A press release issued by the Interior Ministry stated a similar campaign had also been initiated against proscribed organisations that were using the Internet to spread malicious propaganda against the country’s security forces.

Under the campaign, the director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been instructed to monitor and check the spread of any malicious stories or messages regarding the country’s civilian leadership and take necessary action under the Cyber Crimes Act. Violators can be imprisoned for up to 14 years and any overseas Pakistanis can be charged under the act and their extradition sought. The government has also requested Interpol to identify the owners of any email addresses and websites registered abroad that spread such messages.

According to the press release, the servers of all Internet Service Providers shall be checked physically by the FIA on a daily basis to check the spread of such material. staff report


Source: Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

 

[Elmo]

How do you "physically" check servers of the ISP?

 

[Munir]

So this government is trying to stop something they did before they were government?Sounds like Pakistan is becoming more and more like a dictatorship. We land in Benazir Bhutto, adoring pics of het master thief and bisexual failed son... And now even freedom of speech and communication is banned. Wah wah wah...

 

[uncanny]

huh they are all bunch of **** heads i mean the government

 

[TruthSeeker]

I wonder if they have discovered Pakistan Defence Forum???

If so, maybe it is still OK to write criticisms if you are an American like me, ?? I think this "crackdown" only applies to Pakistani citizens. Ha! May I say freely that Mr. 10% is an idiot? Thank you very much......

 

[shravan]

NSA will take care of you Mr. Truth Seeker....

 

[SSGPA1]

and they should, because all other problems of Pakistan are solved now and Pakistan is on the verge of joining the first world countries ... make perfect sense ...

 

[Manticore]

this shows the aim of allocation of recources.

it would have been great if atleast in anouncement they said that they were spying on alqaeda by looking at sms.

half of the youth in pakistan are smsing such jokes, or msging their 'loved' ones. its a way of recreation here nowadays,how else can they completely avail sms packages?

 

[s90]

FIA, PTA cannot screen ‘bad’e-massages

LAHORE: Though the federal government has announced punishment for sending indecent, provocative and ‘ill-motivated’ messages through e-mail and SMS, neither the Pakistan Telecommun-ication Authority nor the Federal Investigation Agency has a system to screen such communication in bulk.


However, the FIA will only launch investigation on receiving such complaints. ‘We can have a system to detect culprits in such cases on receiving complaints but there has been no mechanism to screen millions of e-mails or SMS,’ FIA Director (Punjab) Azam Joya told Dawn on Monday.


‘Some 22 cases and 48 inquiries are under way relating to unauthorised use of computers and, threatening and indecent emails in Punjab,’ he said, adding this year the agency had also disposed of 48 such probes.


PTA chairman Dr Muhammad Yasin said the authority had nothing to do with detecting objectionable SMS. ‘It is exclusive domain of FIA,’ he clarified.


‘In the absence of any mechanism to screen millions of emails and SMS, the government apparently wants to merely warn those who have launched propaganda against its top functionaries,’ observes representative of a cell phone company.


The FIA will book a culprit in such cases under Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance. Under this law a violator faces imprisonment up to 14 years, besides confiscation of his or her property.


The ordinance was promulgated in Dec 2007. Interestingly, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Tribunals, which were to be established in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi to deal with the cases exclusively related to the cyber crimes, have yet to see light of the day.


‘In the absence of the anti-cyber crimes tribunals, the related cases are being sent to district and sessions courts,’ Mr Joya said.

 

[Awesome]

I wonder if they have discovered Pakistan Defence Forum???

If so, maybe it is still OK to write criticisms if you are an American like me, ?? I think this "crackdown" only applies to Pakistani citizens. Ha! May I say freely that Mr. 10% is an idiot? Thank you very much......

I'm going to start posting this after each of your messages:

Views expressed on this website are those of the individuals who express them and may not reflect those of Defence.pk.

... Then again, they may.

 

[Munir]

Asims website about Asim:

Asim is a political commentator from Defence.pk, the authoritative source on Pakistan’s strategic issues. Contact: asim.aquil@gmail.com

Well, I am just a stupid poster with no idea what I write...

 

[Munir]

If I was in charge of Pakistan then there would be more attention to rela news like... (I mean: which idiot elected or appointed these morons....)

Pakistan's Exports Decline for Eighth Straight Month
Bloomberg - Khalid Qayum - ‎Jul 13, 2009‎
July 13 (Bloomberg) -- Pakistan's exports fell in June for the eighth straight months as the worst global recession since the Great ...
Pakistan June trade deficit at $1.80 bln Forbes
Low consumer demand, Pakistan fails to achieve export target SANA

 

[mean_bird]

Sorry to be a party pooper but WTH is this thread doing in Military Aviation Sub-Forum?

 

[Elmo]

Yeah, you are right!

And then we were complaining about this in http://www.defence.pk/forums/suggestions-discussions/29507-gripe.html