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.
The Ministry of IT and Telecommunication’s public consultation period on the draft National Data Governance Policy 2026 closes today. The draft names government data a “strategic national asset,” grants citizens
Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne reported finding evidence of multiple hacking campaigns between February 2024 and April 2026, carried out by China and India linked threat actors against Pakistani law enforcement agencies,
The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights summoned the NCCIA Director General to explain delays and technical faults in the agency’s complaint portal, and its slow response to online harassment
A Lahore judicial magistrate granted the NCCIA a six-day physical remand of podcaster Rehan Tariq, arrested at Lahore Airport on his return from abroad. The FIR, filed after Tariq hosted
The District & Sessions Court of Islamabad rejected the post-arrest bail application of YouTuber Razi Tahir, in a case registered by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) over social
Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar announced that the government has revised the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) (Amendment) Bill, 2026, to explicitly require a property owner’s consent before telecom infrastructure such as