{"id":92621,"date":"2025-12-02T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=92621"},"modified":"2025-12-02T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T04:23:42","slug":"pakistan-needs-to-ban-free-vpns-to-strengthen-digital-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pakistan-needs-to-ban-free-vpns-to-strengthen-digital-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan needs to ban free VPNs to strengthen digital security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Free and unregistered<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pta-allows-users-to-register-vpns-against-mobile-numbers\/\"> VPNs<\/a> have become major cybersecurity risks. They expose citizens to hacking, data theft, foreign surveillance, and cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p>To protect public safety and national cyber defense, the Government and PTA must enforce a complete ban on all free and unregistered VPNs, allowing only licensed, security-vetted VPN services.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-92622\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1064\" height=\"1600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1.jpg 1064w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-768x1155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-1021x1536.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1.avif 1064w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-200x300.avif 200w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-681x1024.avif 681w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-768x1155.avif 768w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/55-1-1021x1536.avif 1021w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1064px) 100vw, 1064px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Important Aspects<\/h2>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0e PTA must enforce the use of only licensed, registered VPNs.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Free VPNs secretly log and sell user data.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Unregistered VPNs are exploited by hackers, scammers, and anti-state networks.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Unsafe VPNs weaken national cybersecurity and expose citizens to malware.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Government must block all free\/unregistered VPN IPs.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Violators may face penalties, service suspension, or investigation.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Businesses using unregistered VPNs risk legal and operational fallout.<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0e Secure, compliant VPNs protect privacy, finances, and national security.<\/p>\n<h2>Regional Context<\/h2>\n<p>Countries like India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh already restrict or ban unauthorized VPNs as part of their national-security frameworks. Pakistan must adopt the same model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Free and unregistered VPNs have become major cybersecurity risks. They expose citizens to hacking, data theft, foreign surveillance, and cybercrime. To protect public safety and national cyber defense, the Government and PTA must enforce a complete ban on all free and unregistered VPNs, allowing only licensed, security-vetted VPN services. Important Aspects \u25aa\ufe0e PTA must [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":55709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[32643,20553],"class_list":["post-92621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","category-technology","tag-digital-security","tag-vpns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92623,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92621\/revisions\/92623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}