Emails, calls to be monitored within 90 days in Pakistan

The government has given a 90-day deadline to the operators and Pakistan Telecommunication to begin monitoring of all emails, telephone calls and other communications with the rest of the world, said daily TheNews on Friday

The paper said the government has assigned PTCL and other operators to install monitoring equipment by the end of this year for checking voice and email communications from abroad and the services of the country’s spy agency will be used basically to check and curb blasphemous and obscene websites on the Internet.

Sikandar Naqi, senior executive vice president told the newspaper “the regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), has assigned 14 LDIs, including PTCL, to install this monitoring equipment,”.

He said the PTA had installed a monitoring system to check 15 gigabytes (GB) traffic coming from international routes at a cost of $10 million in 2008. Now this international traffic from abroad has increased to 275 GB so the cost of monitoring could be higher.
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