The Digital Rights Tracker is a repository of news articles that tracks cyber policy and digital rights issues pertaining to Pakistan. It is updated weekly, helping readers stay up-to-date with the latest news and trends in digital spaces and policymaking across the country.
The Digital Rights Tracker is in its Beta version at the moment and will be going through design changes over the next few weeks. DRF will continue to update it to capture the latest developments.
Police in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, have made what is being reported as the first arrest since the expansion of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). A Tiktoker and political activist
Police in Dadu, in the province of Sindh, have filed formal First Information Reports (FIRs) against over 34 Pakistani social media users for “spreading false information with the wrong use
The chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has told the government of Pakistan that it should establish a government department to proactively and specifically tackle what he considered
A new 14-day deadline, from the time of publication, for the completion of the drafting of the Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB) has been set by the Ministry of Information
A social media and political activist was arrested for allegedly carrying out an “anti-state campaign” online in regards to the hijacking of a Pakistani passenger train on March 11, 2025,
An appeal against the death sentence, given to a former academic in 2019, is to be heard by the Lahore High Court (LHC) on March 19. In 2013, Junaid Hafeez,