Karachi: Public and private universities have decided to launch a central website to provide information and guidance to students about all universities and degree-awarding institutes. The decision was taken at the Governor House in a meeting chaired by Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan, who is also the chancellor of all state-run universities in the […]
PATTOKI: The mother of Internet sensation `One Pound Fish Man’ is praying to Allah that her son has a Christmas No 1 hit so his wife and children can join him for a new life in Britain. When Mohammad Shahid Nazir left his four children behind in Pakistan to study business in London, he could […]
By Farooq Baloch KARACHI: The Turkish hacker – who recently defaced Google Pakistan’s webpage along with 284 other .pk domains – has claimed to have access to the National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) and the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) servers, potentially acquiring personal data of millions of Pakistanis. According to a TechCrunch (TC) report […]
Pakistan’s social media scene has become vibrant enough to influence the conventional media in various ways. Every other Pakistani internet user is a social media user. Latest figures from Socialbakers, a leading social media and digital analytics firm, place the number of Pakistani Facebook users at 7.8 million. Independent estimates suggest roughly three million Pakistanis […]
ISLAMABAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) has directed all non-listed companies, having paid-up capital of Rs200 million and above to maintain a functional website with effect from January 1, 2013, according to a statement on Tuesday. This initiative is aimed at providing investors with a cost-effective and easy access to information about […]
* Pakistani hackers regain control of Punjab Assembly’s website within 30 minutes * Profane image posted on hacked web page By Kashif Hussain LAHORE: A cyber brawl started between Pakistani and Bangladeshi hackers on Sunday when the latter hacked the official website of Punjab Assembly (PA) (www.pap.gov.pk) but Pakistani hackers regained control of the website […]
By: Shahzada Irfan Ahmed After a prolonged spell of suppressed activity, social media websites in Pakistan suddenly became alive on Dec 3, with endless posts and tweets about the reopening of YouTube in the country. To many, this was nothing unexpected as the development had coincided with the tentative deadline given by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority […]
The ban on YouTube has become more of a prestige issue for the government now after the website refused to entertain a request to remove blasphemous content. The matter needs to be resolved soon to allow people to benefit from this mass resource of information and education. It isn’t justified to seal off the biggest […]
PESHAWAR: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has set up a page on Facebook to recruit enthusiasts to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit video, a spokesman confirmed on Friday. The Umar Media TTP page, which has more than 270 likes, appears to have been created in September and has just a handful of messages […]
ISLAMABAD: The thrill and excitement over the lifting of the blanket ban on YouTube in Pakistan was short-lived on Monday as the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) hastily announced that the ban on the video- sharing website was still effectively in place. “YouTube remains blocked. No instructions from government to open it,” said PTA Chairmain Farooq […]
By: Tabish Gul Since the educational standards in Pakistani institutes are not at all equal, the students saw YouTube as no less than a blessing. The website served as a platform where the students from colleges and universities all over the country could find lectures on their respective field of study by some of the […]
By: Farooq Sulehria On December 31, Newsweek will publish its last print edition and assume an all-digital format in early 2013. Explaining the shift, Newsweek says: “…our business has been increasingly affected by the challenging print-advertising environment, while Newsweek’s online and e-reader content has built a rapidly growing audience through Apple, Kindle, Zinio and Nook.” […]
By: Umer Nangiana ISLAMABAD: YouTube users in Pakistan will probably have to wait much longer than they anticipated before they can call up the popular video-sharing website again. The problem stems from the fact that Pakistan and the United States lack a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT), which is what the company usually uses to […]
By: Farooq Baloch KARACHI: Google’s Pakistan page, along with hundreds of other .pk domains, was hacked and defaced early on Saturday. The hackers, who went by the name ‘eboz’, replaced Google’s logo with a picture of two penguins walking up a bridge at sunset. Google is the most common search engine for surfers and news […]
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