Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Friday defended the controversial Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) Ordinance 2022, reiterating his “full” support for the law.
The minister took to his official Twitter handle and said that the PECA ordinance was instrumental in protecting people’s dignity on social media.
In response to the criticism regarding the changes in PECA, Fawad claimed that it is possible to “improve the law, but to say that there should be no law or one that shouldn’t be enforced is absurd.”
The minister further said that the ordinance “was not a political but a societal issue” and all political parties should “come together” for media reforms.
