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Anti-Islam film: Police told to consider registering case

LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday ordered Islampura police to act in accordance with the law in an application seeking a case against the makers of an anti-Islam film, against Google and YouTube, and against the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s chairman. Judge Abdul Sattar Langah issued this order on a petition moved by […]


LinkedIn denies plans to enter Pakistan

KARACHI: International professional social networking website – LinkedIn – denied on Wednesday that it was planning open a local office in Pakistan. LinkedIn refuted the claims of a story filed by the state-owned wire service Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), which quoted the Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem Mandviwalla saying that Linkedin was planning […]


Post-film options

By: Farrukh Saleem ISLAMABAD: A Google search under ‘Jesus blasphemy’ (PBUH) generates 84 million websites. A similar search under ‘Mohammad blasphemy’ (PBUH) and the search engine generates 25.5 million websites. Such is the world we live in. What are our options? Option 1: Appealing to the US judicial system. Under US law, crime has two […]


LinkedIn to set up offices in Pakistan

KARACHI: LinkedIn, an international professional networking platform, is planning to establish its offices in Pakistan, Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem H Mandviwalla revealed here on Monday. Mandviwalla said that the move would help LinkedIn promote Pakistan on its widely-used website. He said he hoped that LinkedIn’s offices would be operational in Pakistan either by […]


Supreme Court seeks report on YouTube blockage

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has asked the attorney general to present report within two days about measures taken by the government to stop operation of ‘YouTube’ in Pakistan. ‘YouTube.com’ contains the blasphemous movie, which incited the emotions of Pakistanis and the Muslims all over the world. A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad […]


Banning a website

By: SONIA SADAF IS banning a website the solution to the problem? In a move against the blasphemous movie clip, the YouTube has been banned in Pakistan. I do not consider this step effective. Blocking a website, which is a platform for showing the world the reality, is not the right move to combat such […]


Building trust: Credibility of social media continues to grow

By: Khurram Baig KARACHI: Is it just a fad? Is the social media bubble eventually going to burst? Is social media credible? It is inevitable that these questions still get asked even though social media has permeated our private and public lives and just about every sphere of human activity. Right from marketing to activism, […]


Can newspapers survive the social media challenge?

KARACHI: Media in the United States and Europe have been pronouncing the death of the newspaper for several years now. Yet while Asia had mostly been seen as exempt from this trend, is the internet bug finally catching on in the Pakistani media market? Can the Pakistani newspaper survive? An analysis conducted by The Express […]


Race to the net: Advertising agencies scramble to offer digital media services

KARACHI: With their clients increasingly demanding digital media as part of their marketing strategy, advertising agencies are scrambling to include digital advertising as part of their portfolio of services, according to sources in the advertising business. The Pakistani internet population has grown less than 10,000 in 1996 to well over 20 million in 2011, according […]


Young, urban, affluent: a profile of the average social media user

By: Farooq Tirmizi KARACHI: The profile of Pakistani social media users appears to be no different from those in the United States: overwhelmingly young, urban, more affluent and better educated than the rest of the population, according to research conducted by the digital media agency, B Solutions. In a special report on the use of […]


Facebook, WikiLeaks and our quest for curiosity

By: Saba Karim Khan The writer works as Head of Corporate Affairs and Marketing for Citi Pakistan and holds an anthropology degree from the University of Oxford. As goes the proverbial saying, “When winter comes can spring be far behind?” In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook. Now, with over 955 million active users worldwide, […]


Pakistan asks US to remove blasphemous film from YouTube

By: Mariana Baabar ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has officially demanded of the US government that it immediately take measures to remove from YouTube the sacrilegious video attacking the person of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and take action against the film’s producer. After waiting for several days which saw the country erupt in violent protests and major […]


Banning YouTube

By: Ahmed Quraishi The real test for President Zardari, who has many good friends in the United States, would have been to ask the US government to control and restrain American hatemongers, who have continued a crude campaign of deliberate insults and humiliation against Islam for several years now. Certainly his confidante Husain Haqqani could […]


Insurers offer specialist cover for Facebook, Twitter attacks

Internet troll’ and ‘Facebook hacking’ are terms few had heard of until recently. But now online abuse and identify theft have become so common that social media users are being sold specialist insurance to help protect their reputation in case of an attack, reports Daily Mail. Hacking of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media […]