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" EXPLICATING THE LAW OF ELECTRONIC EXPLICATING THE LAW OF ELECTRONIC CRIMES IN PAKISTAN By Jawad Hussain Aadil, Civil Judge cum Judicial Magistrate, Islamabad INTRODUCTION On 19th August, 2016, the law related to the electronic crimes was passed by the Parliament; it is a federal law and is styled as the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016. This write up shall adumbrate its main features and shall attempt to appraise its substance; this may be done appositely by organizing the content of the law into substantive and adjective laws. The Black's Law Dictionary (8th Edition) has conceptually elucidated the difference between the substantive and adjective laws as: "The body of the law in a State consists of two parts, substantive and adjective law. The former prescribes those rules of civil conduct which declare the rights and duties of all who are subject to the law. The latter relates to the remedial agencies and procedure by which rights are maintained, their invasion redressed, and the methods by which such results are accomplished in judicial tribunals." SUBSTANTIVE LAW The law provides an array of new offences in Chapter II of the Act. In all, it introduces twenty three offences, which are: (1) unauthorized access to information system or data, (2) unauthorized copying or transmission of data, (3) interference with information system or data, (4) unauthorized access to critical infrastructure information system or data, (5) unauthorized copying or transmission of critical infrastructure data, (6) interference with critical information system or data, (7) glorification of an offence, (8) hate speech, (9) recruitment, funding and planning of terrorism, (10) electronic forgery, (11) electronic fraud, (12) making, obtaining, or supplying device for use…