Cyber Legislation and Cyber-Victimization in Pakistan

Aliya Saeed; Dr. Tansif Ur Rehman; Dr. Adeel Abid; Adnan Zawar; Syed Adeel Ali Bukhari

doi:10.5281/

Authors

Aliya Saeed PhD Fellow at School of Law, University of Karachi, Pakistan Author
Dr. Tansif Ur Rehman Teaching Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Karachi, Pakistan; and Visiting Faculty, Department of Law, Dadabhoy Institute of Higher Education, Pakistan Author
Dr. Adeel Abid Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan; and Assistant Professor, Department of Law, DIHE, Karachi, Pakistan Author
Adnan Zawar M.Phil. Research Scholar, Institute of Social & Cultural Studies, University of the Punjab, Pakistan Author
Syed Adeel Ali Bukhari Ph.D. Research Scholar, Department of Public Administration, University of Karachi, Pakistan Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/

Keywords:

Cyber Legislation, Cyberterrorism, Hacking, Pakistan, Cyber-Victimization

Abstract

Pakistan is experiencing an exponential use of social media. Pakistan has a high likelihood of theft of finances and hacking of accounts that conduct e-transactions and store important data on e-devices. In Pakistan, there are laws against cybercrime that are hardly enforced. In Pakistan, the respective culprits tend to escape punishment. After conducting several amendments in the Electronic Crime Bill 2016, it was passed by the National Assembly of Pakistan. Even this bill was highly opposed in Pakistan. The study evaluates and examines the current situation of cybercrime in Pakistan.