PFUJ challenges social media rules, asks IHC to declare them ‘null and void’
Islamabad, 17 December 2020: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court to...
Islamabad, 17 December 2020: Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court to...
Karachi, Pakistan: 021Disrupt, Pakistan’s premier technology and entrepreneurship conference by The Nest I/O, kicks off today. Running in its 4th...
Islamabad, 1st December 2020: A 'corrected version' of Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards), Rules...
Islamabad, 20 November 2020: The data localisation requirements in the recently notified Removal and Blocking of Online Content Rules, 2020...
Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content Rules extend the scope of censorship Islamabad, 18 November 2020: Recently notified rules...
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