{"id":111977,"date":"2026-08-12T15:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/three-held-over-alleged-cyber-harassment-blackmail-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:10:05","slug":"three-held-over-alleged-cyber-harassment-blackmail-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/three-held-over-alleged-cyber-harassment-blackmail-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Three held over alleged cyber harassment, blackmail | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n LAHORE: <\/p>\n

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The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested three men in separate opera-tions in Lahore, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan for allegedly committing cyber harassment, blackmail, threats and misuse of personal data.<\/p>\n

NCCIA spokesperson Azeem Jafri said a resident of Faisalabad, was arrested in Lahore in connection with a complaint regarding alleged online harassment and defamation. The suspect had allegedly been using online platforms to harass and defame complainant Syed Muzaffar Iqbal Zehrazai.<\/p>\n

A mobile phone was recovered from his possession.<\/p>\n

In Multan, NCCIA officials arrested Jamshed Mahmood Khan from Gulgasht Gol Bagh Park. Investigators al-leged that he had shared objectionable data belonging to a woman through WhatsApp and subsequently threatened and blackmailed her.<\/p>\n

No recovery was made from the suspect.<\/p>\n

In a separate operation in Dera Ghazi Khan, the agency arrested Sajjad Sarwar for allegedly sharing a woman’s objectionable data through WhatsApp, threatening her and blackmailing her.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LAHORE: The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested three men in separate opera-tions in Lahore, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan for allegedly committing cyber harassment, blackmail, threats and misuse of personal data. NCCIA spokesperson Azeem Jafri said a resident of Faisalabad, was arrested in Lahore in connection with a complaint regarding alleged online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/41606940211-0\/41606940211-0-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faisalabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t