Kasur incident: Panel decides to interrogate Punjab police

A parliamentary panel on Friday decided to interrogate Punjab Police in the killing and sexual assault of three children in Kasur (Punjab) recently, which created serious law and order situation in the district.

Former Interior Minister and Chairman Senate Standing Committee on Interior Rehman Malik said that he has already expressed his dissatisfaction over the report of Punjab Police on killing and sexual assault of three children in Kasur. He also directed for a detailed briefing on the issue during the upcoming meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Interior.

He further said that he is not satisfied with the sexual assault of a boy by his inmate in Adiala Jail and will be issuing a notice for a briefing on the overall situation and condition of jails across the country.

The senator said that India is involved in cybercrimes worldwide and stealing sensitive national data of various countries for different nefarious activities. He said that Ministry of Information Technology should go beyond firewall and create an iron curtain to secure the sensitive official websites.

Malik said that the Indian hackers are notorious for their repeated evil intrusion in cyberspace throughout the world. He said that Indian hackers made more than 200 attempts to attack the website of Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).

He said that an Indian company got ingress into ECP website through UNDP as the Result Management System (RMS) was launched by the ECP in collaboration with the UNDP. He added that the Indian company used a company namely Kaulitatem Inc and the security of RMS was certified by an Indian company namely EC-Council with its head office in Hyderabad, India.

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