In recent months, journalists in Pakistan have faced rising threats, abductions, and arrests, highlighting a hostile environment where judicial harassment, intimidation and violence are used to ...

The Federal Investigation (FIA) has registered a major case exposing a multibillion-rupee scam linked to illegal online activities and shady call centres. The investigation has already led to the ...

Pakistan's crackdown on online disinformation ... to suppress social media continue," Mazari added. The legal expert on cybercrime Osama Malik, termed the PECA laws "draconian." ...

A Texas firm recently charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic opioids in the United States is at the center of a vast network of companies in the U.S. and Pakistan whose employees are ...

ISLAMABAD: In a major move to tackle the growing threat of cybercrime, the government has formally transformed the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)’s former Cyber Crime Wing (CCW) into an ...

Waqar-ud-Din Syed, a Grade-20 officer, comes to the NCCIA after serving as the director of the FIA Cybercrime Circle. Recognized for his contributions to combating online crime, he was awarded the ...

ISLAMABAD: The federal on Friday notified two significant appointments in critical law enforcement agencies — the Federal Investigation Agency ... in combating cybercrime in Pakistan.

Riffat, a Grade-21 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), previously served ... Waqar, a Grade-20 PSP officer and former director of the FIA Cybercrime Circle, was recently awarded ...

The criminal complaint (First Information Report) against Mallick was registered by the FIA Cyber Crime Reporting Center Karachi under Sections 16, 20, and 26-A of the Pakistan Electronic Crimes ...

According to Syed, the FIA's cybercrime unit observed that UK-based SIMs were particularly popular in Pakistan due to their ease of availability and pre-activation. "These pre-activated SIMs can ...

Over the past five years, Pakistan has ... of just 3.16 per cent. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)'s data revealed that 639,564 complaints were filed with its cybercrime wing since 2020 ...