Sir: Besides pedagogical purposes, the cyber world is highly exploited for the promotion of cybercrimes. Cybercrimes are committed inter alia with the help of phishing, hacking and diffusion of malicious viruses. Cyber pornography, identity theft and the sale of illegal articles have been institutionalised with the speedy progress of cybernation. The worst cases involve transaction fraud, piracy, plagiarism and blackmailing, where a man blackmails his girlfriend by making an erroneous account or uploading her private photographs on public websites. Even the newly introduced internet banking system in Pakistan is at high risk. Account holders can lose their money to hackers and criminals sitting offshore where there are no cyber law enforcing agencies. The scammers are quite instrumental in harnessing the advantage of anonymity provided by the internet and defraud denizens. The cyber threat is not confined intra-regionally. The implications of ‘cyber terrorism’ are quite terrible, particularly if they fall into the hands of terrorist outfits because this would automatically give them enormous political leverage. The gravity of the situation can be gauged from the fact that state-sponsored espionage battles are fought via the cyber world. Not surprisingly, a National Cyber Security Policy in India has been working since 2013. Sadly, Pakistan is devoid of such robust policies. On December 31, 2007, former president Pervez Musharraf enacted a law called the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance (PECO) 2007. The law has been criticised on many grounds. Currently, the Cyber Crime Bill has been enacted. It seems that the incumbent government is determined to address the rising problems of the cyber threat in a proactive rather than reactive fashion. For the proper promulgation of the law, all stakeholders should duly reciprocate to ensure their sincere participation. KIBRIYA ASAD Karachi