The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked over one million URLs and 140 mobile applications that have been used in various unlawful/objectionable activities.
Its documents revealed that a dedicated Monitoring Cell has been established at the PTA Headquarters to monitor online content and to resolve complaints from the general public and government organizations.
Category | Total Processed |
Contempt of Court | 8,673 |
Defense of Pakistan | 36,820 |
Glory of Islam | 77,692 |
Defamation/Impersonation | 7,690 |
Miscellaneous | 6,562 |
Decency and Morality | 903,074 |
Proxy | 10,219 |
Sectarian/Hate Speech | 40,365 |
Total | 1,091,095 |
The PTA stated that in consideration of the enormous volume of content being uploaded on digital media, a multi-pronged strategy should be devised to minimize the uploading of unlawful content on various platforms.
The following actions are intended to be taken in this regard:
PTA also conducted 53 raids in the last three years to eliminate illegal telecom setups and grey telephony, which led to the confiscation of 163 illegal gateways and 35 arrests.