web monitoring cell.
The MoIT had forwarded a summary to PM for disbanding the Inter Ministerial Committee (IMC) for identifying objectionable and blasphemous content at internet and granting powers to PTA for undertaking this crucial assignment last month.
It was desire of the MoIT to grant more powers to PTA for undertaking responsibilities in this regard.The Islamabad High Court had already barred the IMC for playing any role for content management at internet so the MoIT moved ahead to give another proposal to the government to strengthen the role of PTA.
The mechanism of IMC was created during the last PPP tenure through issuing of notification by competent authority and after slapping ban on YouTube its role got immense importance for identifying objectionable content at internet and then assigning PTA to block unwarranted websites.
When contacted top guns at PTA Friday said that they had already placed an internal mechanism to block all kind of unwarranted material including blasphemous and pornographic so the PTA would strengthen its mechanism to comply with the latest orders of the competent authority. “We have been asked by the Islamabad High Court to block unwarranted contents at internet and we were already providing compliance report to the court in this regard,” they added.
Under existing act, PTA’s functions include to regulate the establishment, operation and maintenance of telecommunication systems and provision of telecommunication services in Pakistan, to receive and expeditiously dispose of applications for the use of radio-frequency spectrum, to promote and protect the interests of users of telecommunication services in Pakistan, to promote the availability of a wide range of high quality, efficient, cost effective and competitive telecommunication services throughout Pakistan.
It is also mandate of the PTA to promote rapid modernization of telecommunication systems and telecommunication services, to investigate and adjudicate on complaints and other claims made against licensees arising out of alleged contraventions of the provisions of this Act, the rules made and licenses issued there under and take action accordingly.
It is also function of PTA to make recommendations to the federal government on policies with respect to international telecommunications, provision of support for participation in international meetings and agreements to be executed in relation to the routing of international traffic and accounting settlements and to perform such other functions as the federal government may assign from time to time.
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