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Govt to try Imran under cybercrime, defamation laws

Marriyum Aurangzeb, the Federal Minister for Information, has notified the public that strict action, under the cyber crime and defamation laws, will be taken against anyone carrying out “negative propaganda” against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif or his family.



The minister was addressing a press conference in Islamabad.

She said “While the Panamagate case was in court, there was a lot being said about it on the media and social media, and no action of any kind was taken against it.”

She added “However, in the past two weeks while the court has secured its verdict, a propaganda campaign has been carried out on social media, and people have been carrying out this campaign in an effort to influence the court.”

According to the minister, remarks like “if the verdict is in favor of the PM, then justice has lost” were an attempt to pressurize the court.

For that very reason, the government plans on trying anyone carrying out propaganda against the PM and his family.

She claims this is not political revenge and should not be considered political victimization.

PTI & Imran Khan to be Tried Under Cyber Crime Law
The government has also decided to take action against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan and the political party’s leadership under the cyber crime and defamation laws.

According to the Information Minister, the party has been trying to influence the Supreme Court’s decision and hurt the Prime Minister’s reputation by using electronic, print and social media.

Dawn News reported that Marriyum Aurangzeb said “We will definitely take action against the PTI leadership”.

The minister was of the opinion that Imran Khan’s party had no justification in objecting against the action. She added that work is being done in preparing a case against the PTI leadership under both, cyber crime and defamation laws. Marriyum Aurangzeb was pretty clear on her opinion that PTI leadership are also in contempt of the court.

Final Words
Cyber Crime law was heavily criticized for this very reason when it was passed last year. IT industry, civil society and digital activists believed it would be used politically by all governments to control the social media and is an act against basic human rights.

Minister of information’s vague and undefined term like “negative propaganda” could include anything from share a picture to a post stating a person’s opinion on the matter, clearly in violation of basic rights of open speech.

She failed to define what this negative propaganda means and what sort of social media activities would be included in it. While it is the Prime Minister and his family’s right to be protected under the cyber crime law, it is vital that the law should not be misused for political gain by curbing any voice that raises concerns on government related issues or corruption.

https://propakistani.pk/2017/03/14/social-campaigns-pm-cyber-crime-info-minister/
 
first book her under cyber crime law for spreading fake news....

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What about 'Will rip open the stomach and drag on the street' comment against a sitting President only a few years back?

Or is the Cyber Crime bill only applicable to events after its formation?

This will go to Supreme Court eventually and SC has the powers to apply the law on the events in the past as well.

Another axe on their own feet by PMLN. Amount of $hit they've said about sitting Presidents, Prime ministers, ministers etc, in the past is a long list.

Do it PMLN!! Do it!!
 
Pakistan's PM orders blocking of all social media content deemed blasphemous to Islam and for prosecution of suspects.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered the immediate removal and blocking of all online content deemed to be "blasphemous" to Islam from social media - and for those responsible to be prosecuted.

Tuesday's order came in the wake of ongoing hearings at the Islamabad High Court in a case seeking the blocking of all Internet content deemed to be "blasphemous".

"The [posting of] blasphemous content on social media is an unclean attempt to play with the feelings of the Muslim Ummah [community]," Sharif said in a statement.

"Effective steps must be taken immediately to remove and block this material."

Pakistan's telecommunications regulator currently blocks hundreds of websites, including those run by ethnic Baloch dissidents, as well as sites containing pornography or material deemed to be blasphemous.

Last week, Pakistani Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said the government was taking steps to contact social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter to remove or ban blasphemous content from being viewed in Pakistan.

READ MORE: A shrine to murder for 'blasphemy'

  • In January 2016, Pakistan ended a three-year ban on video-sharing website YouTube, also over blasphemous content, after the content provider agreed to launch a localised version that would streamline the process for content to be censored for viewers in Pakistan.

    "We will go to any extent even if we have to go to the extent of permanently blocking all such social media websites, if they refuse to cooperate," Khan said in a statement on Thursday.

    On Tuesday, Sharif directed Pakistan's foreign office "to play an effective role" in contacting international social media websites.

    'Eliminate this evil'
    Blasphemy is an extremely sensitive issue in Pakistan. Insulting the Prophet Muhammad carries a judicial death sentence and, increasingly commonly, the threat of extrajudicial murder by right-wing vigilantes.

    At least 68 people have been killed in connection to blasphemy allegations since 1990, according to a tally maintained by Al Jazeera.

    The petition in the Islamabad High Court accuses five rights activists who were abducted in early January of running pages on social networking website Facebook that had posted content deemed to be blasphemous.

    No evidence has been shared directly linking the five activists to the Facebook pages in question, but during their three-week disappearance the men were the subject of a vast social media campaign accusing them of blasphemy.

    READ MORE: Christmas message leads to death threats in Pakistan

    Most have stayed silent since their release, but Ahmed Waqass Goraya, one of those abducted, has since spoken out publicly about being "tortured" by Pakistan's powerful military during his disappearance.

    The military has previously denied any connection to the disappearances of the activists.

    Last week, Shaukat Siddiqui, the judge hearing the case in Islamabad, directed the government "to take some steps … to eliminate this evil [blasphemous content], even at the cost of blocking entire social media".

    The case has since expanded to include accusations against three journalists who discussed the allegations and the courts orders in this regard on a television news show.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/...asphemous-content-online-170314092645327.html
 
Now this time Dracula league has dug its own grave, if they were to go ahead with defamation charges, these idiot Dracula league rs have lost the plot, why don't they go after BBC or Panama who have disclosed massive corruption of Noora king.
 

"PML-N leaders accuse PTI leadership of trying to influence SC decision in Panama Papers case"


Bwahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa so Nawaz Sharif government is questioning the credibility of Supreme Court? or is it feeling scared of the outcome?
 
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ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to take action against Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan under cybercrime and defamation laws for what its representatives describe as trying to influence the Supreme Court’s judgement in the Panama Papers case and besmirch the reputation of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif through electronic, print and social media.

Addressing a joint press conference here on Monday, Minister of State for Information Marriyum Aurangzeb and the ruling PML-N’s MNA Daniyal Aziz said that in his speeches and on the social media Mr Khan had tried to damage the reputation of the prime minister by levelling false allegations against him. The government had a right to proceed against him under the country’s cybercrime and defamation laws, they added.

“We will definitely take action against the PTI leadership,” the minister said, adding that it should not be called political victimisation because the PTI’s campaign against the prime minister fell within the purview of cybercrime laws.

Editorial: Panama Papers and media ‘court’

She said if the government took action against Mr Khan his party had no justification for raising objections over it.

PML-N leaders accuse PTI leadership of trying to influence SC decision in Panama Papers case
Ms Aurangzeb said work was under way to prepare a case against the PTI leadership under the cybercrime and defamation laws.

She alleged that Mr Khan and other leaders of his party had committed contempt of court by trying to influence the decision of the apex court in the Panama Papers case.

The minister claimed that the PTI had recently made a documentary film in which photographs of honourable judges of the apex court were being shown along with their remarks which suited the party’s stance in the Panama Papers case. “The documentary does not contain remarks of judges against the PTI,” she added.

She said the government was more resourceful and could make such a documentary, but it was silently waiting for the court’s decision in the case.

Editorial: Panama Papers: the larger picture

The minister said the prime minister and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz had full confidence in the apex court and they would accept whatever decision was announced by it in the case.

She said the PTI could get nothing by hatching conspiracies and making documentaries against the government because the judges had already made it clear that they would not give a popular decision in the case and that they would decide purely on merit.

Answering a question, she said the prime minister had already said that he would accept the decision of the court.

The minister claimed that economic indicators in the country were positive and some international organisations had acknowledged performance of the government. The PML-N came into power at a time when the country was on the verge of bankruptcy. But now, she added, the national economy was showing positive indicators. She mentioned reduction in the duration of power loadshedding, bullish performance by the stock market and construction of motorways.

She claimed that there was a reduction in the number of terrorist incidents in the country.

She said it was a success of the government that the population census was being conducted in the country after 19 years.

Mr Aziz claimed that the PTI wanted the Supreme Court to form a commission to investigate the Panama Papers case.

He alleged that the main objective of the PTI behind the Panama Papers case was to damage the reputation of the prime minister and not a proper investigation into the case.

“Imran Khan has said in a recent statement that even if Nawaz Sharif is exonerated in the Panama Papers case, the stigma of corruption will stick to his political career,” he added.

He accused the PTI leadership of launching a campaign against the prime minister and his family on the media and its purpose was to influence the decision of the apex court in the Panama Papers case.

The two PML-N leaders claimed that Maryam Nawaz was not a dependent of Mr Sharif. She ran her own business and paid taxes regularly, they added.

Published in Dawn, March 14th, 2017
That idiot already has more serious cases registered against him. The coward never appeared in the court for those cases. Instead of registering new cases, government needs to ensure the rule of law and produce the crook in the court hand-coughed.
 
Good thing, they should have done it long ago when this idiot asked awam to not pay their Bills and he did his himself ???
Also by not giving any of his account details on his cases but creating hype Panama case?
Also for calling everyone else Phatechar ? when the decision is not in his favour
 

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