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The new law will widen the agency's monitoring to include all crossborder cable traffic (from the current limitations on the FRA to monitor only military radio communications).
For example, on June 21st the military-appointed governor of Pakistan's North West Frontier ordered the province's cable television networks to be shut at the behest of Islamic clerics, who said they promoted obscenity.