{"id":8651,"date":"2024-02-29T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8651"},"modified":"2024-02-29T11:20:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T11:20:36","slug":"pta-escalates-crackdown-on-illegal-issuance-of-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8651","title":{"rendered":"PTA Escalates Crackdown on Illegal Issuance of SIMs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240122_175050-1024x675.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240122_175050-1024x675.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240122_175050-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240122_175050-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/IMG_20240122_175050.jpg 1066w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Islamabad : Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Zonal Office Rawalpindi, in collaboration with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing, successfully conducted three raids targeting franchisees of a mobile phone company and an illegal SIM registration vendor in Hasan Abdal, Wah, and Rawalpindi, respectively.<br>The sale channels were found to be involved in illegal issuance of SIMs. During the raid, 3550 pre-active SIMs, 3 BVS devices, 748 silicon thumbs, 11 thousand digital fingerprints, and a printer were confiscated.<br>Three individuals were apprehended on the premises by the FIA team, and FIRs have been filed against them. Currently, the FIA is conducting a thorough investigation into the matter.<br>Prior to these raids, PTA had filed a complaint with the FIA based on information related to the illegal issuance of SIMs by these sales channels. The raids are part of PTA&#8217;s ongoing efforts to prevent the circumvention of the Multi-Finger Biometric Verification System (MBVS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad : Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Zonal Office Rawalpindi, in collaboration with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime Wing, successfully conducted three raids targeting franchisees of a mobile phone&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8652,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8651\/revisions\/8652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}