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Stakeholders show reservations on cyber crime bill

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ISLAMABAD – While Ministry of Information and Technology is busy in reviewing the proposed prevention of electronic crime bill 2015, the stakeholders believe that cyber crime was not really the core issue for a country like Pakistan, where a mere 10 percent population use internet, but cyber terrorism and cyber wars. “We have no updated […]


Radio Pakistan: then and now

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Village life used to be very simple and sweet. Farmers would share their views with one another in a hujra or some other common place after toiling all day in the fields. The only window open to them to learn what was going on in the world outside happened to be the noble and honest […]


Cyber units fail to disable or block TTP website

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ISLAMABAD: Senior officials admitted on Tuesday that they had no effective legal mechanism to take down or block access to the website of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the banned outfit involved in most of the terrorist activities in the country. It was the TTP that claimed responsibility for the Dec 16 attack on the Army […]


A ‘compliant’ alternative to YouTube

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KARACHI: The restriction on youtube.com is into its third year but uncertainty on when and how it would be unblocked and divide on justifications behind the sanction continue to hover around the world’s largest video sharing website. Islamabad banned the social video-sharing platform on September 17, 2012 after its parent company Google had turned down […]


PEMRA hires Swiss consultant for initiation of DTH licensing

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has issued a Letter of Intent (LoI) to hire M/s Digital Strategy Consulting Services, Switzerland for initiation of Direct to Home (DTH) licensing in Pakistan. PEMRA in its advertisement issued in leading newspapers dated October 30, 2014 had solicited proposals from international consultant/firms/companies to hire a suitable […]


YouTube ‘unblocking’ short-lived joy

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ISLAMABAD: For those who have been able to access YouTube in the last a few days, the joy is short-lived. “The reason why YouTube was accessible in certain parts of the country was because of a technical fault which will be fixed,” said Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman on Friday. The rumours […]


Wi-Fi service for public places planned

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Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif approved Khadim-i-Punjab Metro Wi-Fi Network Programme and a programme for distribution of computer tablets among math and science teachers of grades eight to 10 at a meeting on Thursday. The meeting also decided to distribute tablets among top students between grade five to grade eight at public schools Addressing the meeting, […]


Goodbye YouTube

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There was a recent news item suggesting that the ministry or governmental authority or whatever had declared that the ban on YouTube was not going to be lifted in Pakistan any time soon. The reason given was that improper content could not be removed from it. By improper content we all know what is meant. […]


Pakistan: Draft Cybercrime Law Undermines Freedom of Expression

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In early 2014, Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication introduced a draft cybercrime ordinance, the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act. At the time, human rights advocates, including the Centre for Law and Democracy, criticised the draft as a threat to Pakistan’s burgeoning online community and cautioned that its broad language threatened to turn millions […]


Pakistan lacks facilities to trace hackers

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KARACHI: The number of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) events topping 20 gigabits per second (Gbps) in the first half of 2014, were double than those in 2013 as more than 100 attacks at 100Gbps or higher were recorded in the first six months of 2014, Forbes said in a report last July while quoting a research […]


Facebook and our youth

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If you have safety check on your children signed in social networks like twittering, Facebook, whatsapp and viber… you may shock of your life. While we are social media enthusiasts and addicted to networking, we still believe that use of social media by the youth needs some careful steps. Facebook is a top social networking […]


Internet applications transform economy

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LAHORE: Internet applications have transformed the economy through the use of sensors, which collect and transmit accurate information in real time, said analysts on Wednesday. “The information is used to improve products, services and operations,” said IT expert Saad Bin Tahir. He added that a more common and earliest use is in energy optimisation. Power […]


‘Fake degrees, social media sources of corruption among youth’

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KARACHI: Representing those who have the power to change the future of the country, the students at Ziauddin University attended the ‘Youth, Leadership and Integrity’ dialogue organised by the varsity with the help of Transparency International (TI), Pakistan. What was also striking was the response of the audience to questions by university student affairs director […]


Broadband services depict 40% growth with 3.79m subscribers

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ISLAMABAD: Broadband subscription in the country has depicted a growth over 40 percent during last year, reaching 3.79 million subscribers mark as compared to 2.72 million during 2013. This means 1.07 million new subscribers joined broadband networks during the year. A latest statistics issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) remained […]