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Plan to ban social media websites in govt offices

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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication was informed on Wednesday that the use of social media websites in government offices could be banned to check alleged leak of official data. But chairman of the committee Ali Khan Jadoon of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf sought details of the government plan after members […]


PTA hails Facebook’s efforts to protect users from harmful content available online

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Islamabad   –     Facebook in its latest report confirms Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s (PTA) efforts to protect social media and internet users from harmful content available online. The PTA requests for content restriction were related to blasphemy, indecent, pornography, defamatory, impersonation, and anti-state content etc. PTA has been mandated to block/remove such unlawful content hosted on the […]


Requests for suspension of accounts based on Facebook’s standards: PTA

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tele­communication Authority (PTA) has clarified that it forwards requests for suspension of Facebook accounts based on the latter’s community standards. The PTA said in a statement on Tuesday that it made requests to suspend accounts related to blasphemy, pornography, impersonation and indecent, defamatory and anti-state content. “These efforts are (aimed) to protect […]


Police register ‘sedition’ case against protesting Sindh University students

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KARACHI: A day after Jamshoro Police implicated 15 students of the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, over charges of rioting, criminal conspiracy and ‘condemnation of the creation of the state’, social media was abuzz with reprisals over what many users termed a move to silence free speech. At the varsity, students belonging to various faculties at […]


Social media best tool to expose Indian aggression in IOK: President Masood

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PESHAWAR:The time is ripe to come up with a new narrative on occupied Kashmir to expose India’s real face before the international community, said Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) President Sardar Masood Khan. “Pakistanis and Kashmiris have potential to highlight Kashmir issue in the context of changing situation while getting India’s false narrative rejected by the […]


WhatsApp empowers users with new privacy controls

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LAHORE    –     WhatsApp groups continue to connect family, friends, coworkers, classmates and more. As people turn to groups for important conversations, users have asked for more control over their experience. WhatsApp is introducing a new privacy setting and invite system to help you decide who can add you to groups. To enable […]


Pakistan leads in number of censorship requests sent to Facebook

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Of the 17,807 content restrictions made by Facebook globally, the highest number — over 31 per cent — of the requests originated from Pakistan between January and July 2019, according to the platform’s latest transparency report released on Wednesday. Facebook restricted 5,690 items within Pakistan during the first half of 2019, as compared to 4,174 pieces from the second […]


Pakistan tops in Facebook content censorship

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KARACHI:Facebook restricted access to over 5,000 pages, posts and other content in Pakistan between January and June 2019 – the highest in the world – followed by Mexico with 4,727 content restrictions, the social media giant said in a report released on Wednesday. According to the Facebook Transparency Report, the amount of content it restricted access to in Pakistan […]


HinduMuslimbhaibhai trends on Twitter after Kartarpur opening, Ayodhya verdict

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KARACHI: On a historic day for communal politics in South Asia, discourse around Kartarpur opening and Ayodhya verdict dominated Twitter’s worldwide panel throughout Saturday. The Ayodhya verdict was issued by India’s top court hours before the historic opening in Pakistan of the Kartarpur Corridor, which allows Indian Sikhs to arrive in Pakistan without a visa […]


Public toilet finder app to be launched in KP

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PESHAWAR: An app is going to be launched on Nov 19 to help people, particularly tourists, find public toilets across the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. This was announced by Imranullah Mohmand, assistant coordinator of water and sanitation services cell (W&SC) of local government department, while briefing Special Assistant to Chief Minister on Science and Technology, Kamran […]


As data leakage fears loom, PTI govt mulls launching own app for communications

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ISLAMABAD.: As fears of data leakage escalate in the country, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) led government has decided to develop an indigenous application called “Govt-APP” for all official communication and is likely to quit the use of over-the-top (OTT) service like WhatsApp. According to a decision taken during the cabinet meeting, chaired by Prime Minister […]


Facebook decides to launch digital literacy programme in 2020

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ISLAMABAD: While Pakistan tops the list of countries for making requests to block contents, Facebook has decided to launch digital literacy programme next year 2020 in order to create awareness among users to get benefits for use of technology. “In Pakistan, we are planning to launch digital literacy programme next year 2020 to help users […]


Facebook to launch digital literacy programmes in Pakistan next year

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ISLAMABAD: Although Pakistan is among countries where most content is restricted on Facebook, cases of harassment remain under-reported due to a lack of public awareness on reporting mechanisms. Speakers at an awareness talk held on Thursday said that the use of social media platforms was becoming increasingly restrictive for women and the challenge to ensure […]


Senate body takes notice of immoral video clips on social media

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ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate’s Committee on Interior Senator Abdul Rehman Malik has taken notice of showing derogatory, objectionable, immoral and defamatory contents and vulgar video clips through Facebook, twitter, Tiktok, YouTube on social media and directed the FIA to take immediate action against those account holders who were releasing these immoral contents on the social media […]