LAHORE – A Pakistan court on Thursday jailed a man for seven years in thecountry’s first ever conviction for child pornography.

Sadat Amin was found guilty by a Lahore court of being part of a globalchild pornography racket spread across Europe and the United States.

Pakistan only criminalised child pornography, as well as sexual assaultagainst minors, for the first time in March last year, following thepassage of a bill in the Senate.