Cyber Crime Ordinance 2009 has been tabled in the Senate for its approval.

Leader of the Upper House, Syed Nayyar Hussain Bukhari on behalf the Ministry of Law and Justice has tabled the Cyber Crime Ordinance 2009 under the article 98 (2).

According to the text of the ordinance, accessing any electronic system or electronic devices without permission would legally be a crime.

Similarly, accessing, destroying, hacking and sabotaging any criminal data set up by any organization or the government, or committing a fraud using an electronic system or Internet, or making unauthorized changes, or using someone else code or password to access information, or to harass anyone using Internet, or to transmit immoral matter or images, or using electronic system, device or Internet, or to participate in a terrorist or destructive activity are all legally crimes for which imprisonment of 3 to 10 years or a fine of Rs 100,000 to 500,000 or both have been suggested as the punishments.