US diplomat attends Senate panel meeting

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Mian Raza Rabbani has requested an investigation into the nearness of an outside negotiator while the Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology was holding a meeting to consider the Cyber Crime Bill on July 21, 2016.

At the point when the Chairman of the Senate Standing Committee Shahi Syed was reached on Monday, he said that there was an open listening to orchestrated endorsement of this bill amid the standing board of trustees meeting held at the NTC working for which one individual, named Mubasher, had asked for support as an onlooker however he conveyed one negotiator having a place with the US Embassy alongside him. He said that the representatives were required to get authorization for partaking in such gatherings yet the panel was never educated that a US negotiator was seeking interest.

Be that as it may, sources said that a few NGOs were trying endeavors to obstruct the endorsement of this enactment, so they first tried endeavors to pressurize the clergyman of state for data innovation to hold a meeting with negotiators of Western nations on this issue yet the pastor declined to meet them.

The pastor had trained secretary Ministry of IT to hold a meeting with ambassadors of various nations to listen to their reservations on the off chance that they had on any enactment yet passed on to them unmistakably that the nation would secure its interests no matter what.

As the representative left the venue of the meeting, then think endeavors were made to give a feeling that the US negotiator had gone to the meeting since Islamabad needed participation of the USA on this subject.

The Ministry of IT rejected this impression and expressed freely that they had never looked for any participation from the US government on this subject. There were US organizations required in this subject and it had nothing to do with the legislature.

Presently as the director Senate has paid heed and requested for leading a request, so obligation ought to be altered with reference to why legitimate security was not guaranteed that brought about uninvited investment of an ambassador in the procedures of the Senate standing panel.