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Category: Pakistan

  • Pakistani Bloggers Forum

    Its been sometime since I have felt the need to have a discussion forum to talk about issues affecting the Pakistani Bloggers. Hence today we have on our own effort created such a forum which is bound to create some great interaction on a number of topics. Check it out at Forum.Bloggers.pk

  • The Path of Khan

    I would recommend you to read the interview of Imran Khan taken by Tim Adams of The Observer. I personally remain a big fan of Imran Khan for his in-your-face honest truth, whether you like it or not he speaks straight from the heart. Its sad to see professional liars only make it big in…

  • Will You Stop !!!

    Do take a look at this map of the Israeli occupation from 1946 to 2000, a region predominantly occupied by the Muslims back in 1946 has slowly diminished to barely a few green spots on the map. It blatantly appears to be an invasion slowly expanding its territory and shoving the Muslims into extinction. Under…

  • TAG IT! on Bloggers.Pakistan

    Bloggers.Pakistan now boasts another nifty feature called TAG IT! A community driven tagging system perfectly designed to improve the overall blog reading experience for everyone using Pakistan’s First and Only Blog Aggregator – www.bloggers.pk. In the first week of launch we have processed over 70 applications of which a few are still pending due to…

  • Bloggers.Pakistan Launched

    We (Omer Alvie and Dr. Awab Alvi) are pleased to announce the launch of Pakistan’s first and only Blog Aggregator at www.bloggers.pk, a one-stop site to preview what is being said in the Pakistani blogosphere. It started off as a casual discussion between two chat-buddies which slowly took the shape of a massive effort to…

  • Blogspot Blocked AGAIN

    Well our celebrations from the last post, were indeed short lived as the PTA has again resumed the blocking of the entire blogspot domain. As of today, 6th May 2006 5:00pm, after a brief relief of three precious days for the internet surfing society of Pakistan, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority appears to have again resumed…

  • PTA Unblocks Blogspot

    In a very surprising move the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just recently unblocked the entire blogspot domain. Credit must go out to Don’t Block the Blog team (Omer Alvie & myself) and the Action Group Against Blogspot Ban in Pakistan. It was a combined effort from both groups to have created enough pressure to undo…

  • PTA Blocks FIVE more Websites

    In a recent development, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has gone further encroaching upon the the free and open Internet to block five more websites that are offending the breurcats in Islamanad. This letter was issued on the 25th of April and required all the ISP’s to comply within 24 hours. It seems as if the…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace concludes

    The final day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace ended with probably one of the best technical sessions of the event, it was titled “Internet Security” and was conducted by Ethan Zuckerman of Berkman Center / Global Voices, and Nart Villeneuve of Citizenlab. Both were well versed in the security aspects and gave an…

  • Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace (Day 2)

    The second day of the Free Expression in Asian Cyberspace was quite interesting to say the least, which covered issues of technology and legal implications on free speech movement Issac Mao, hails from China and talked about some very interesting ways how the Chinese by pass the GFW (Great Fire Wall). The authorities maintain a…

  • Silencing the Pakistani Blogs

    On the start of the second day of the Freedom of Expression in Asian Cyberspace conference, I was chosen to project the efforts of Don’t Block the Blog. The PowerPoint presentation is Silencing the Pakistani Blogs PowerPoint presentation (1 MB), an audiopodcast is available in MP3 here(6.4 MB), while I also enclose the entire text…

  • Three Days of Mourning

    I was in receipt of this article received by a chain of email it appears to have been written by a certain Naeem Sadiq, talks in depth about the present issue of the aftermath of the bombing in Karachi which claimed the lives of 57 people and over 100 injured A bunch of carefree schoolboys,…

  • We Will NOT Retaliate

    Today at around 7:00 pm a massive bomb blast was detonated at Nishtar Park, Karachi. Nishtar Park was the venue to a peaceful Islamic meeting which was organized to celebrate the birth of Hazrat Muhammed (PBUH), the bomb blast occurred under the main stage where the entire congregation was offering their Maghrib prayers essentially targeting…

  • Protocol That Kills

    A few days back the President of Pakistan Pervaiz Musharraf graced our city to inaugurate the Expo Pakistan. Naturally a visit by him means all hell breaks loose, road blocks are placed around town resulting in massive traffic jams without even a second thought. The only and primary concern is to protect the life of…

  • Pakistan Censors Knowledge for Seven Hours

    In a very surprising development the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority which controls the Pakistan Internet Exchange had blocked access to the entire Wikipedia.org domain at around 1:00pm on 31st March. Immediately the AGABBIP group and the Don’t Block the Blog team were set into motion. The ban was not localized to any single ISP but was…