Pakistan Forms Regulatory Body to Monitor Online Blasphemous Content

As government is committed to scrutinizing online contents, some rights activists charge that monitoring the internet will be a slippery slope.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: New Delhi Times
By Staff Report | November 6, 2017

Pakistan’s government has formed a regulatory body to monitor and block blasphemous content online in an effort to further extend the enforcement of the country’s controversial anti-blasphemy law into cyberspace.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the government-run communications regulatory agency, has created a 25-member group tasked with cracking down on websites, social media accounts and online pages that they consider offensive to Islam.

“The committee, being constituted by the Ministry of Interior, will include representatives from PTA, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), and the ministry,” Ismail Shah, PTA’s chairman, told the standing committee on information technology of Pakistan’s upper house of parliament recently.
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