The Supreme Court was informed Tuesday that Web Monitoring System (WMS) had been installed in March 2020 to curtail grey telecommunication traffic. A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial, heard a suo motu notice of operation/running of illegal telecommunication traffic causing loss of billions to the national kitty and posing potential threat to national security.
Director General Cyber Vigilance PTA earlier informed that the steps had been taken to control/curtail concealed transmission of grey call through Simboxes located in Pakistan by using the submarine cable system available for telecommunication trafficking. He told that the web monitoring system had been installed, which was functional from March this year.
As a result of it, unidentified and concealed calls interrupted and blocked. This has helped overall five percent telecommunication traffic through the legal system. The significant improvement made with cooperation of the FIA and the FBR as unlawful equipment have been seized and three persons arrested.
The counsel for Dancom Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd informed that its traffic has increased by 34 percent over the last month. The court therefore disposed of the suo motu, which was taken by former chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar in September 2018 that due to grey trafficking, the country has faced huge financial losses.
He had constituted a committee headed by Director General Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) to find out the causes, and how to eliminate Grey Telecommunication Traffic, which causing loss of billions to the national kitty and pose potential threat to the national security.
The committee also included brigadier-level officer from the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI), the Intelligence Bureau (IB), the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), representative of mobile companies, and the additional attorney general of Pakistan as its members.
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