‘Cybercrime laws may hurt financial interests of business sector’

The Pakistan Peoples Party had expressed serious reservations over the cybercrime law passed by the National Assembly as we feel this legislation would hurt the financial interests of the country’s business sector.

This was stated by Dr Sikandar Ali Shoro, the Sindh chief minister’s special assistant for information science and technology, while addressing the inauguration ceremony of a one-day symposium on recent trends in computer science organised by KU’s Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society. 

He said the PPP had proposed 54 amendments to the cybercrime bill, as the party could foresee the negative impacts this law could have down the line. 

“Development in the field of information science and technology is one of the major priorities of the provincial government and we are working with the education, health and agriculture sectors for collaboration on various projects,” he said.