Overview
- At a Dec. 11 briefing in Islamabad, Interior Minister Talal Chaudhry and Law Minister Aqeel Malik renewed demands that major platforms comply with Pakistani law and establish in-country offices.
- Officials said investigators identified 19 militant-linked X accounts operated from India and 28 from Afghanistan, alleging some support from elements within Kabul while noting no immediate responses from either government.
- Islamabad called for AI-driven tools to automatically remove terrorist content and for access to registration and IP data to speed investigations.
- Cooperation was described as uneven, with Telegram, WhatsApp, YouTube and Facebook assisting while X was singled out as providing the weakest response.
- The government cited Brazil’s enforcement model as a template and warned of fines, temporary blocks or international legal action if cooperation does not improve, alongside continued NCCIA prosecutions of online anti-state activity.