Cybercrimes proliferate in Pakistan

NEW DELHI: More than 10,000 cybercrime cases are pending in Pakistan while 250 alleged culprits has been set free because of inefficient law.

The boom in the usage of internet and smartphone in the past 10 years in the country has also led into criminal use of this technology, says Pakistan’s MoreMag.

From blackmailing women to harassment on social media, from fake job offers to internet calls for extortion money, our cyber space has been ravaged by criminal elements of the society.

Kidnappings are occurring in the country by faking friendship on social networking websites.
Pakistan only has a defunct cyber-crimes law in form of “Cyber Crimes ordinance” that was last updated in 2009.