Bolo Bhi, a not-for-profit organization, filed a petition claiming that the Ministry of Information Technology [through the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Evaluation of Websites (IMCEW)] and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) lacked the power under law to block websites. The Court passed an interim order on 20 January 2015 allowing only the PTA to take action to block websites based on a complaint made to it, as long it proceeds "strictly in accordance with law". While the case was ongoing, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (PECA) was passed. Section 37 of PECA vested in the PTA the power to remove or block content online. In light of this, the Court held in 2018 that the PTA had the power under law to block websites, but highlighted that these matters fall under the exclusive domain of the PTA. The power to block websites is thus required to be exercised independently by the PTA without being influenced by any direction or information laid before it by the Federal Government. It held that while exercising its discretionary power, the PTA must not act “arbitrarily and capriciously.” As a result of these orders, the IMCEW was disbanded.