• December 21, 2019
• Social Media

KARACHI: In light of fresh claims of Pakistani officials being targeted with a hacking software involving an Israeli spyware company, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has sought details of the compromised users from the social media company. In a report published on Thursday, The Guardian claimed that the mobile phones of at least two dozen Pakistani government officials […]

• December 17, 2019
• Social Media

Tania Aidrus, former Google executive who is now the incharge of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s new venture Digital Pakistan Initiative, vowed on Monday to play her role in resolving the financial issues faced by ever-increasing freelancers in the country due to the absence of PayPal, an American company operating a worldwide online payment system. She […]

• December 15, 2019
• Social Media

WhatsApp has announced ending support for older devices including all window phones operating systems after December 31, 2019, and resultantly millions of phones would stop functioning. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) while quoting WhatsApp has warned that WhatsApp is ending support for older devices. WhatsApp in it’s a blog post has mentioned that it is ending […]

• December 15, 2019
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD:Special Assistant to PM on Poverty Alleviation Dr Sania Nishtar on Saturday said Facebook could be a powerful tool in overcoming the challenge of malnutrition. “Digital marketing tools on social media are essential to fight malnutrition in the 21st century,” she said while addressing the launching ceremony of the digital campaign, ‘Hackathon on Malnutrition’. “Facebook […]

• December 15, 2019
• Social Media

WhatsApp has announced ending support for older devices including all window phones operating systems after December 31, 2019, and resultantly millions of phones would stop functioning. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) while quoting WhatsApp has warned that WhatsApp is ending support for older devices. WhatsApp in it’s a blog post has mentioned that it is ending […]

• December 13, 2019
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD: The information ministry has abolished its social media cell, making 24 people jobless. Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan confirmed the development at a press conference on Thursday. She, however, said that the cell was raised by her on a temporary basis. “Now, we are going to establish a […]

• December 13, 2019
• Social Media

Jamaat-e-Islami chief Senator Sirajul Haq has expressed concern over the blockage of official Facebook pages of the JI days ahead of its Kashmir Solidarity March in Islamabad. Presiding over a meeting of party’s media and social media team here on Thursday, he said the JI was being victimized for raising voice in support of the […]

• December 11, 2019
• Social Media

US-A social-media influencer has been sentenced to 14 years in prison over a plot to obtain a domain name at gunpoint. Rossi Lorathio Adams II, 27, built up more than a million followers by posting videos of partying Iowa State University students on his website, Doit4thestate.com. He then planned to expand his empire by buying […]

• December 11, 2019
• Social Media

KARACHI- JI Karachi Ameer Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman condemned Facebook administration for closing official page of his party on the behest of Indian lobby. Addressing a protest rally to mark International Human Rights Day, expressing solidarity with people of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and flaking Indian forces atrocities on them, he said this ugly act was taken […]

• December 10, 2019
• Freedom of Expression, Social Media

KARACHI: Facebook — one of the world’s largest social media platforms — on Monday blocked Jamaat-i-Islami’s (JI) official and other pages related to the party’s information dissemination, days ahead of its Kashmir March scheduled for Dec 22 in Islamabad, stated a JI spokesman. The JI spokesman stated that the Facebook administration without any prior notice […]

• December 8, 2019
• Social Media

The apex court of the country unexpectedly halting a long-announced extension in the job of the army chief is as big as news can get in Pakistan, short of a prime minister being removed from office or one being hanged or executed – all have, sadly, happened. And yet, when two weeks ago a bolt […]

• December 7, 2019
• Freedom of Expression, Social Media

MIRPUR (AJK) -The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Azad Jammu Kashmir strongly condemned Facebook administration decision to suspend the accounts on messaging service WhatsApp used by the besieged Kashmiri people in Indian-held Jammu Kashmir. While condemning the action, Ershad Mahmud, the party’s Secretary Information, said in a press statement issued on Friday that the step has completely compromised the […]

• December 6, 2019
• Social Media

LAHORE: President Dr Arif Alvi has said the mass media has attained central place in people’s lives today, though the social media content has made it difficult for people to distinguish between fake and true information. While addressing the concluding session of three-day AdAsia 2019 conference at Alhamra on Thursday, he drew a comparison among […]

• December 6, 2019
• Social Media

ISLAMABAD -Regretting that previous governments did not work on making Pakistan a digitally advanced country, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday expressed his resolve to take country digitally forward. Launching ‘Digital Pakistan Vision’ at a ceremony here, the prime minister termed it a big opportunity for the nation, saying introduction of e-governance in government departments would […]