STATEMDNTo F OBJECTS ANI) ITIiAS o NS Currently Pakistan has no law to comprehensively deal with the growing threat of cybercrime. The centuries old criminal juetice legal hamework ie inadequate and ill equipped to addreee the sophisticated online threate of the 21"t Century cyber age. While this rew age haa exacerbated both existing crimee when colducted with the use of the Internet, which arc adequately addreesed by the application of the Electronic Tlansactions Ordinance, 2002 in conjuncti,rn with existing criminal justice legislation, it has aleo grven birth to comp letely new $rpes of cybercriue and criminals which cannot be elfectively dealt with through the use of exiting iegislation. The latter cannot be addreesed einply by amending exieting legislation or through a patchwork of enarling provisions. 1'he unique nature of these crimes filde no adequate or analogous provisiona in existing legislation that deal with trafitional olTline crime. Effectivoly addressing these unique and unprecedented crimes with similarly unique and necesaary procedural powere, requires a completely uew and comprehensive legal framework that focuses on online conduct of :.ndividuala/ortanizations in the virtual world. The legislation therefore, establishee new offencos inclufing illegal access of data (hackiug), ae well as ini.erference with data and informatior Bystems @OS and DDOS attacks), specialized cyber related electronic forgery and electronic fraud, cyber terrorism (electronic or cyber attack on the critical information i.ofrastructure), ulrauthorized ilterception conducted by civili.ans, use of malicious code viruses, ilentity theft etc. The legielation providee new inveetigative powers hitherto unavailable euch aa eearch anil seiz\rre ol'digital forensic evidence ueing technological neans, production ordere f,rr electronic evidence, electronic evidence preservation ordere, partial di:closure of traffic data, real time coliection of data under certain circumstances and other enabling powere which are necsaaary to effectively invesl,igate cyber crime casee. The very technical oature of the new powera that are neceasary to inve8tigate and proaecute these crimes require their exerciee to be proportionate with the civil liberty