CYBER CRIME: PAKISTANI PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Many scholars, lawyers, students and legislatures working on the cybercrime found it difficult to know what cybercrime exactly is? How many cybercrime are prevailing in the Pakistani legal system and how much is punishment for these crimes? Lack of proper awareness and understanding of the issue has caused many difficulties for the researchers, law enforcement agencies, legislatures and judiciary because when they talk of the cybercrime they include many things which are not cybercrime or they exclude which are cybercrime. The present paper analyzes in some detail the cybercrime, definition, origin of the internet, complications, famous cybercrimes, their punishments and role of NR3C in some details. It concludes that the existing legislation on the subject is not sufficient; therefore, the legislator needs to legislate on the matters which are not covered under the existing legislation.