FascistArmy.org Website Blocked in Pakistan

It is a fact that those romantic days of ‘Enlightened Moderation‘ a key phrase used to disguise the term Martial Law by Pervaiz Musharraf are a thing of the past. General Musharraf is now the Judge, Jury, Prosecutor and defendant all in one, playing with the fate of this country as he feels appropriate. His patience to listen to criticism has plummeted to the extent that he cannot tolerate even a strong voice let alone a finger pointing out his mistakes.

One must try to convince the commander that if he has stepped into politics then criticisms must be tolerated, had if the Army restricted itself to the barracks then he could have a strong argument to demand the respect and dignity as normally accorded to the armed forces as our sole defenders of the country, but this defensive cloak was shed the moment the Army stepped into politics back in 1999 and in effect opening the flood gates to any and all, finger pointing criticism of the army by any Pakistani who feels genuinely grieved.

It is my fundamental right as a tax paying citizen of Pakistan to question the political leaders running this country with ‘my’ money. If the President of Pakistan travels to any corner of the world, he travels as ‘my’ representative using ‘my’ money, if he sleeps at night, well that’s a concession ‘I’ give him so that he can rest and be ready the next day to defend the issues of Pakistan using ‘my’ money, heck if he takes a time out to piss, sadly that too is time wasted using ‘my’ money. He is the employee of Pakistan and is answerable to Pakistanis for each and every thing he does on OUR time.

Recently the President of Pakistan had drafted a new PEMRA ordinance and later tried to enforce it with all its might by shutting down a few TV stations which were found in violation. This lead to a media frenzy attacking Musharraf and was later forced to publicly back down on this ordinance, but source inform me that those were merely words to pacify the storm and there has been no notification supporting the withdrawal of the PEMRA ordincance of 2007 and it stands effective to date.

The PEMRA Ordinance per se did not cover the Internet blocking directly but the attempt to silence the critics was also reinforced when the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has recently started blocking the website titled ‘Fascist Army‘ which was very updated on exposing the Pakistan Army in every aspect. A trace route reveals that it is indeed being blocked at the level of PIE – Pakistan Internet Exchange.

traceroute to fascistarmy.org (82.197.131.24), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.200 (192.168.0.200) 2.482 ms 1.911 ms 2.013 ms
2 10.0.0.138 (10.0.0.138) 3.954 ms 4.191 ms 3.979 ms
3 129.108.181.58.dynamic.max.com.pk (58.181.108.129) 48.993 ms 54.926 ms 49.934 ms
4 192.168.1.41 (192.168.1.41) 47.970 ms 97.188 ms 147.901 ms
5 192.168.10.14 (192.168.10.14) 56.875 ms 52.227 ms 69.990 ms
6 192.168.2.5 (192.168.2.5) 111.953 ms 56.316 ms 52.962 ms
7 khi77.pie.net.pk (202.125.137.49) 52.956 ms 56.928 ms 57.962 ms
8 khi77.pie.net.pk (202.125.128.134) 53.958 ms !H * 55.536 ms !H

We as representatives of Society Against Internet Censorship in Pakistan & Don’t Block the Blog object to any form of internet censorship. We must teach our bureaucrats that blocking websites simply draws attention to the issue no matter how minuscule the problem might be, seeing something suspicious it is human nature to attempt to find out the underlying problem and intelligent surfers are able to use easily available circumventing tools to by pass this ban enforced by the government.


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9 responses to “FascistArmy.org Website Blocked in Pakistan”

  1. Babar Bhatti Avatar

    Great post, now this site is going to get even more visitors!

  2. nota Avatar

    It certainly is blocked. Just to inform you: almost all of the content consists of old south asia tribune (satribune.com) articles. satribune.com was run by someone named Shaheen Sehbai and I used to visit it once a week atleast, that is until Mr Sehbai abruptly shut it down in october 2005 without giving a convincing explanation (you can read it at the mirror still up at http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/index-2.html).

  3. Babar Bhatti Avatar

    I’ve heard that wordpress.com may be one of the target site to be blocked.

  4. Sara Ahmad Avatar
    Sara Ahmad

    This is another step taken by this unconstitutional government of General Musharraf which has confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt about the fascist mentality of this current regime.
    After the start of this current wave of judicial crisis and political turmoil the government has gone crazy and its cracking down on every source and platform which is exposing the rogue tyranny of Pakistan Army. General Musharraf had been taking the credit of media freedom in the past however, the current steps including PEMRA ordinance has proved that he is nothing but another authoritative ruler who is ruling at gun point. The people behind this website are absolutely right in calling this organization of Pakistan Army as fascists.
    I have browsed through the contents of FascistArmy.org various times and it was an excellent piece of work and all the material was presented in a superb manner. The website did not only address the issues related to this current regime but its comprehensive contents also concentrate on the entire history of Pakistan in the context of politics and military intervention in state affairs.
    These new stunts to gag the voices against the military of Pakistan is a proof that these people are incompetent to stand up and face the heat of the truth. They do not want the nation to hold them accountable for all the abuse of resources they have been in the name of national defense. Their passion is not to defend the geographical boundaries of the country; in fact escapism is their obsession.

  5. Naveed Butt Avatar

    First I am thankful for your support for fascistarmy.org and escondly, since generals are too incompetent to controle media, I have managed to unblock it. This website is now unbloacked on most ISPs of Pakistan and even it’s blocked on your ISP, you can access it through a proxy server.

    I suggest http://www.urlroute.com/

    There is a text only version of the site is also available here mobile.fascistarmy.org and photo album of the site is available at album.fascistarmy.org

    Naveed

  6. Syed Amanatullah Avatar
    Syed Amanatullah

    The Pakistan Army placed Point of Surrendera for those innocent in Lal Mosque, These shameless Generals forget that civilian are not used to or prone to any surrender point at all, they can fight till end. It the Only Pak Army who know surrender point as their great Gen Niazi surrendered at Paltan Maidan Dhaka to the invading Indians. i would have forwarded the surrender photo and intrument of surrender if there was provision of attachment in this comment. So Taliban leader were right in saying to Gen Mehmoud the then ISI Chief who was shaking when met last time the legendary Mullah Umar at Kandahar when Mulla Umar said historical remarks to Gen Mehmud that “Do not worry about us, we have never lost any battle and Gen you have never won any battle” Shame on corrupt Generals.

  7. amjad Avatar
    amjad

    all those who speaks against army are not true Pakistani.who are these uniform people they are amongst us, our brothers, our sons but only difference is they volunteered to join army. unfortunately this is our culture that we do nothing only criticized.i grade four Pakistani generations, one who gave us Pakistan (grandfather generation)did good job, second generation our father generation with whom Pakistan remained for good about 50 years and some of them still running the business, third generation is our generation which is really in trouble which got Pakistan in present state, fourth generation our children the most confused who questions what is happening. now the problem is with second generation who did nothing for Pakistan they just corrupted the system and did not progressed. moreover they are not letting us (third generation) to work. mostly, they are retired, rejected from homes their job is to come on media and just talk. remember readers if you are true Pakistani they are the one who did not progressed and brought Pakistan at this stage. my appeal is to third and fourth generation which is more educated lets get rid of second generation lets ask them to stay at home let us to save Pakistan.

  8. Charleston Avatar

    Try bypass

    http://techwor.com/how-to-access-blocked-or-restr

    Not proxy but faster. hope it helps