{"id":724,"date":"2015-04-24T07:55:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T07:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=724"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T04:35:35","slug":"call-for-transparency-in-cybercrime-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/call-for-transparency-in-cybercrime-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for \u2018transparency\u2019 in cybercrime bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The cyber rights groups have voiced their demands from the government to publically share the draft of the cyber crime bill and called for inclusion of civil society members in the revision of the bill before it is passed in the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>In a discussion held in the Habib University over the \u2018controversial\u2019 draft Prevention of Electronic Crimes (PEC) bill, 2015, loosely dubbed the cybercrime bill, the panellists warned about serious ramifications the bill entailed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government has still not shared the draft publicly on their website, the fact that they are holding it back means they don\u2019t want feedback on it,\u201d said Jehan Ara, president of the Pakistan Software Houses Association for IT &amp; ITES (P@SHA).<\/p>\n<p>Read complete story at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1177789\/call-for-transparency-in-cybercrime-bill\" target=\"_blank\">Dawn News<\/a> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: The cyber rights groups have voiced their demands from the government to publically share the draft of the cyber crime bill and called for inclusion of civil society members in the revision of the bill before it is passed in the National Assembly. 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