{"id":1029490,"date":"2026-08-18T08:46:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029490"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T03:45:10","slug":"pakistan-to-deport-284-foreigners-arrested-for-sextortion-cybercrimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/18\/pakistan-to-deport-284-foreigners-arrested-for-sextortion-cybercrimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to deport 284 foreigners arrested for sextortion, cybercrimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan will deport 284 foreign nationals, mostly from China, Vietnam and Indonesia, for their alleged involvement in cybercrimes, including sextortion, an official said on Monday, August 17. <\/p>\n<p>Most of them arrived in Pakistan on tourist visas and were operating from a registered IT business in Islamabad, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Usman Anwar said. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects were arrested last week, and some of them were shifted to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for deportation, said Anwar. &#8220;The Ministry of Interior has cancelled the suspects&#8217; visas and they are soon going to be deported.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan will deport 284 foreign nationals, mostly from China, Vietnam and Indonesia, for their alleged involvement in cybercrimes, including sextortion, an official said on Monday, August 17. Most of them arrived in Pakistan on tourist visas and were operating from a registered IT business in Islamabad, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Usman Anwar said. The suspects were arrested last week, and some of them were shifted to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi for deportation, said Anwar. &#8220;The Ministry of Interior has cancelled the suspects&#8217; visas and they are soon going to be deported.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029507,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029490\/revisions\/1029507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}