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Pakistan Creates Cyber Crime Wing
Associated Press
Mar. 13, 2003 PT
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- A Pakistani security agency has launched a
special wing to combat cyber crimes in part because the country had to
rely on U.S. investigators to trace e-mails sent by the kidnappers of
American journalist Daniel Pearl a year ago.
"The purpose of establishing the National Response Center for Cyber
Crimes is to stop misuse of the Internet and trace those involved in
cyber-related crimes," Iftikhar Ahmad, spokesman for Pakistan's
Interior Ministry, told the Associated Press on Wednesday.
"The importance of this special wing was felt when Daniel Pearl was
kidnapped, and his captors started sending e-mails to newspapers," he
said.
The Wall Street Journal correspondent disappeared on Jan. 23, 2002,
from Pakistan's southern city of Karachi.
On Jan. 27, 2002, the Journal and other media received an e-mail from
a group calling itself the National Movement for the Restoration of
Pakistani Sovereignty. The e-mail contained a photo of Pearl, 38, with
a gun to his head.
The FBI traced the e-mails, and police captured those who allegedly
sent them to the newspapers, but, on Feb. 21, 2002, the U.S. Embassy
received a videotape showing Pearl was dead.
"The National Response Center for Cyber Crimes will play a key role in
the days to come in tracing those terrorists who often use the
Internet or prepaid telephone cards to communicate messages to their
associates for carrying out acts of terrorism and other purposes,"
Ahmad said.
The special wing has been established at the headquarters of an
intelligence agency in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital.
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