ISLAMABAD: The draft of much-needed Cyber Crime Bill has finally been prepared and now it would be sent to Pakistan’s federal cabinet for approval in next a few days, sources said yesterday.
The sources said the Law Ministry had thoroughly reviewed each and every clause of the bill and after approval from the federal cabinet it would be presented in Parliament.
“We have also approached International Telecom Union (ITU) before giving final shape to draft of the bill and now it can be said that it carries all necessary clauses that can help prevent cyber crimes in all possible manners,” an official said.
The draft of the bill focuses on financial crimes, cyber terrorism, defamation, data damage, electronic fraud, intellectual property crimes, email spoofing, cyber stalking, forgery, unauthorised access to computer systems/networks, theft of information contained in electronic form, virus/worm attacks, logic bombs, trojan attacks and password cracking.
The new law would not only extend to whole Pakistan but also to all such persons who commit an offence having detrimental effect on the security of Pakistan.
All service providers would be required to retain traffic data for a specific time period for purposes of providing it to the investigation agencies that would be authorised to seek such data according to their requirements.
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