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RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) cybercrime wing arrested on Friday two men suspected of posting on social media material and content deemed to be contemptuous of major state organs.
The arrests were made during raids on the residences of Anwar Aadil in Railway Carriage Factory Colony and Wajid Rasul Malik in Al-Noor Colony in the city. Following the arrest, the duo was shifted to an undisclosed location.
Earlier, in the light of an FIR lodged by one Ibrar Ahmed, resident of Islamabad’s Dhoke Gujjar area, the FIA conducted an inquiry which established that Aadil and Malik, with mala fide intentions and ulterior motives, had uploaded and, through their Twitter accounts, disseminated defamatory and disgraceful material and contents against judges of the Supreme Court as well as members the armed forces and the government.
The FIR stated that such illegal activities were causing disharmony and unrest among the public and inciting hatred and contempt against the government and state institutions.
Published in Dawn, October 21st, 2017
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Whistle blowers shall never be persecuted. They are the eyes and ears of the masses, a restraint on unbridled ponies using fear and looting treasuries of Pakistan. They are the real heroes.
@sajed syed Whistle blowers should be protected but paid propagandists, should be taken to the task
They must be transparently tried in open court with full representation. Cowardly, violent attacks behind closed doors on the freedoms of citizens must not be tolerated. Have these men been provided with good lawyers?
The role of Non-State actors has been "institutionalized" is the land of the pure. So some role conflicts between these Non-State actors and whistle blowers can happen from time to time. Institutions therefore believe that whistle blowers should practice their tunes in confined areas or they may face the music.Arrogance of entitlement of whistle blowers will not be tolerated.
Where is freedom of speech and expression in Pakistan?
where is civil rights in Pakistan?
There is no per Donal freedom. Voices are throttled for flimsy execuses
Where is equality of civilians with establishment? the establishment should shun its superiority against the civilians. We should stand up for civilian rights against establishment repression.
Is this what you do after getting elected to the Human rights body of UN. You don't deserve to be member of UN human rights body.
so now these BIG institutions are afraid of these little innocuous tweets and facebook posts. what are we turning into? please let people live.
"Two held over social media content" This is what happens to the common people when they take on the VIPs.
"Two held over social media content"
This is to silence the critics and whistle blowers.
This is absurd, we are not allowed now to think and speak freely? The establishment is going to lose this battle, because no one has ever won such a battle. Free ideas and speech are the only way forward for Pakistan.
Is there democracy or dictatorship in Pakistan?
The civilian government should stand for civilian rights and support freedom of speech and expression in Pakistan.
Why is civilian government silent on this issue, aren't we the civilians elected you to protect the rights of civilians?
Irony....those who should be handcuffed are ruling this land....God save our country!
Everybody deserves due process of law and a day in the court.We should carefully balance the right of free speech and the fears that the free speech would cause disharmony in the society. There should never be knee jerk reactions in such matters.
Part of Maryam Nawaz media cell.
Where is freedom of speech? Is it confined to MNAs and Ministers only. In last few months enough has been said against important state organs. But no FIR was filed no arrest was made.
@freedom It died a long time ago. Let it rest in peace. The hue and cry that we hear or see is simple bigotry nothing else.
Arrested for breaking law is all right but taking to an undisclosed location is strange
Nawaz Sharif invented the cybercrime law. Now he doesn't like it being used against his followers.