Pakistan Internet traffic being hacked or routed through India, reveals DG SCO
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ISLAMABAD: In a startling revelation it has come to notice that Pakistan Internet traffic is either hacked or routed through India before landing in Pakistan.
The network which brings internet traffic into Pakistan through submarine cables has been developed by a consortium that has Indian companies either as partners or shareholders, which is a serious security concern.
We would like to propose a new alternative network system to be set up in Gwadar for the flow of internet traffic,” Director General Special Communications Organisation (SCO) Maj-Gen Amir Azeem Bajwa informed the National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology during a briefing.
Mr Bajwa was seeking approval for the establishment of a cross-border optic fiber connectivity network under the Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP).
The project will include laying of over 800 kilometres fibre optic cables along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) starting from Khunjerab to Rawalpindi to Gwadar and finally terminating in Karachi.
He explained to the lawmakers that a consortium - without Indian partners - would be engaged to lay the network along the CPEC.
