Pakistan body faces backlash over anti-VPN decree

Pakistan’s leading constitutional religious body came under severe criticism after it issued an edict terming the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to access blocked content on the internet as ‘un-Islamic’. The unprecedented proclamation by the Council of Islamic Ideology...

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Islamabad, Updated At : 09:59 AM Nov 18, 2024 IST

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The unprecedented proclamation by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII), which advises parliament on aligning legislation with Islamic teachings, enraged digital rights activists as well as some religious scholars. According to the Dawn newspaper, the CII chief Raghib Naeemi said that using VPNs to access “immoral or illegal content” was against Sharia.

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