Category: Politics
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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…
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Hu Heckled in the US
The President of China on his recent official trip was not only heckled by a Falun Gong activist during his address on the White house lawns If this were not enough then being heckled by President George Bush, is rude enough by an annoying tug on his sleeve. Many Chinese have said that this was…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Slap the Block
The creative mind of a few local Pakistanis Yasir Memon & Naveed – has created this nifty utility for those individuals in Pakistan stuck behind the Government supported censorship on our Internet The way this service works is that you can simply go-to http://www.pkblogs.com/blogname where blogname is “blogname.blogspot.com” Alternatively head on over to www.pkblogs.com –…
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Hundred Rupee Tip for Mr. Bush
Keep the Change
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Pakistan Googled by a Texan
George W. Bush’s two-day trip to Pakistan can now sadly be looked back upon more as a state sponsored relaxation trip for the President after his hectic schedule in India. Little do the Pakistanis have anything to show for this visit by the most powerful dictator of the world. In 2000, we were literally on…
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Don’t Block the Blog – 2
Just a progress report on the Censorship Campaign organized by our own administration. I am embarrassed to point out that the blockage still exists, it now can be understood as NOT an innocent mistake but more as an organized ploy to deliberately block all blogs. No progress has been made to alleviate this blockage and…
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Don’t Block the Blog
As I write this post on the morning of 4th March 2006 all sub domains of Blogspot.com carrying thousands of free blogs continue to remain censored for all internet users in Pakistan. The mess all started on the 27th of February when the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority issued instructions to all ISP to block all websites…
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Cheers
To further promote the Pak-China friendship our very own dictator General Pervaiz Musharraf could not refuse to share a casual glass of wine with the Chinese counterpart. Cheers Credit for the Priceless picture goes to Undefined Destiny
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The Cartoons had been a Journalistic Project….
The world around us continues to ask for peaceful protests in response to the Blasphemous cartoons published a few months back. From the gloomy day of 9/11 the Muslim community has continued to take accusations for a good five years sitting quietly taking punches and have generally adopted an apologetic attitude even for an action…
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Controversial Images of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH)
Over the past few days a great deal of controversy is underway over a set of 12 comics published by a Danish Newspaper called Jyllands Posten, the Muslim world is abuzz with calls for boycotting all Danish products and impact has already been felt by dairy giant Aria Foods for sales having already plummeted to…
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Bin Laden – The Voice
Usama Bin Laden retains control of FBI’s most wanted terrorist list, despite the fact that it has been upwards of five years of intense pursuit by a number of US Agencies with absolutely no sign him, but it surprises me that every so often a mysterious tape appears at the doorsteps of the Al-Jazeera network…