Fed govt plans to launch operation clean-up on social media.

ISLAMABAD -- The federal government has decided to launch an operation clean-up on social media aimed at action against elements sharing indecent messages, images, and videos on the sites, media reported.

The government has formed a committee to change rules of the Cyber Crime Act to be led by the Additional Director General Headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

The committee would include ADG Basharat, Director Cyber Crime Waqar Ahmed, Director Law Tariq Mehmood, and Deputy Director Cyber Crime Wing Sajjad Ali.

The committee would also preset its report on the non-cooperation from six social media sites and would submit them to the interior and law ministries.

In January 2019, Federal Minister for Law and Justice Barrister Dr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem on Thursday said that the government would bring...

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