Farieha Aziz
Faults in submarine cables and increased VPN usage don’t explain WhatsApp media disruptions.
Updated 25 Aug, 2024 09:08am
Citizens have a right to know what additional curbs are being placed on their freedom of expression and privacy.
Updated 02 Aug, 2024 09:20pm
National security cannot be an umbrella phrase simply thrown around, unqualified or accepted at face value.
Updated 15 Jul, 2024 08:46am
Various filtering and surveillance technology has been purchased and put to use in Pakistan.
Updated 06 Jul, 2024 09:14am
How does a platform threaten national security and public order? How has its ban, yet use via VPNs, prevented this?
Published 25 Apr, 2024 11:05am
Civil society & industry have cautioned against regressive measures.
Updated 13 Jan, 2024 09:39am
Journalists critical of the state have routinely been targeted.
Published 28 Sep, 2023 07:19am
How does a state whose operators and apparatus thrive on all kinds of leaks — video, audio, photo, you name it — pretend to want to protect data?
Updated 07 Aug, 2023 11:48am
Too much is being sacrificed to egos, vested interests and a complete lack of understanding of the medium.
Published 10 Feb, 2023 02:37pm
While political parties will always be engaged in a Game of Thrones, the collateral are journalists, academics and citizens, who never have been nor ever will be in positions of power.
Published 16 Dec, 2022 01:27pm
By now, the Peca law had been established as the go-to tool for the state to silence or intimidate its naysayers.
Published 14 Dec, 2022 09:46am
What began under the PML-N government, intensified under PTI rule and is in vogue once again under the PDM government.
Published 12 Dec, 2022 04:57pm
Registering a case without any legal basis is easy, but closing it is not.
Published 20 Oct, 2022 07:53am
Our political parties love to champion free speech as long as they are in the opposition. When in power, however, each of the...
Published 14 Aug, 2022 07:12am
Does the government not know how rule-making is done?
Published 03 Dec, 2020 07:49am
Acting unlawfully against citizens has been a consistent pattern.
Published 25 Jun, 2020 06:35am
The government must learn rather than dictate.
Published 14 Jun, 2020 06:17am
The rules transgress Peca and infringe on rights.
Published 23 May, 2020 06:02am
Like the PTA, the FIA has no inherent power to investigate and prosecute offences under Peca.
Updated 27 Sep, 2019 07:28am
Even the telecom policy reflects PECB’s controversial aims.
Published 11 Feb, 2016 04:31am
