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Watch out, you’re online

By: Shahzada Irfan Ahmed The internet initially seemed like a blessing, but the hazard it’s causing to the lives of innocent girls is something that can’t be neglected. You! Takes a look at the increasing rise in cyber crimes against women… Rushna is a student of a leading institute of management sciences in Pakistan. Life […]


Pakistan Telecommunication Authority asks users to help identify anti-Islam sites

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has requested people to bring it to its notice if any anti-Islamic video is available for viewing through any ISP or mobile operator in Pakistan. According to a press release issued by the PTA on Monday night, the chief justice of Pakistan has ordered the PTA to block access […]


Websites carrying anti-Islam film blocked, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority tells court

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) informed the Supreme Court on Monday that it had blocked 934 websites carrying an anti-Islam film which provoked worldwide protests. PTA’s Director General Waseem Tauqeer, who had been summoned by the court, said the authority had acted on the orders of the ministry of information technology. In a later […]


Government blocks YouTube operations

By: Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: In response to surging protests against the controversial film ‘Innocence of Muslims”, the government decided on Monday evening to block operations of the video sharing website YouTube in the country. “Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has taken cognizance of the blasphemous film available on YouTube and has issued strict instructions to […]


Health ministry’s website

By: A Khan KARACHI: I was searching for the website of Pakistan’s ministry of health to acquire some information. I could not find the website through Google or even through the official website of the government of Pakistan. This website gives the URLs of all ministries and divisions except the health ministry. It seems that […]


Team formed to carry out constant monitoring of anti-Islamic sites

ISLAMABAD: Minister for Interior Rehman Malik on Friday constituted a team to carry out round the clock monitoring of all anti-Islamic sites and take remedial actions. The team would be headed by Member (legal) in Ministry of Information Technology while Member (technical), Director General, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Director, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would […]


Controversial video on YouTube blocked

ISLAMABAD: The authorities on Thursday blocked access to an anti-Islam video clip as security measures were beefed up around US diplomatic missions, following attacks on American consulates and embassies in Libya, Egypt and Yemen. “We have beefed up the security for possible threats to the US embassy,” Khurram Rasheed, a senior police official responsible for […]


Pakistanis search over 8m queries on Google daily

LAHORE: Pakistanis search more than eight million queries on a daily basis on Google search engine in which, 25 percent searches come from mobile phone users, Mac Warburton from Emerging Market Sales Google said. Pakistan is the big market for Google Inc because of its growing online population, which is more than the overall population […]


Social networking for noble causes

By: ZOHAIB JAN Karachi: THE media plays a great role in developing one’s personality. And the media policy — if designed carefully — can really bring a drastic (positive) change in our society. The Internet has changed the world. It has changed the way we communicate. So just by using the Internet as a way […]


Google earnings touch $500m per year in Pakistan

By: Muhammad Yasir KARACHI: Google Inc is earning handsome revenue of $400-500 million in Pakistan mainly through advertisement of international and local companies, having businesses with expansion potential in Pakistan. Jana Levene, chief Emerging Market Development, Southeast Asia at a meet-up ‘Hangout with Google on Making the Web work for Pakistan’ said on Monday, “Pakistan […]


Social media – A world of wonders for fashion designers

By: Saadia Qamar KARACHI: Designers agree that advertising expenditure can turn out to be a major hindrance, especially if you are new in the fashion industry. Creating awareness about your brand and attracting customers becomes an additional cost. But this is where social media steps in. By simply uploading fashion collections on social networking websites […]


Social media and humanitarian assistance

By: Tazeen Javed The Arab Spring has forever changed the way people will view social media in the context of political change and citizens’ active participation in bringing about that change. But politics is not the only arena where social media has made its presence felt. It can and has been used by a lot […]


Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocks website against its own chief

By: Abrar Mustafa ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has ordered the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) of the country to block a website and a Facebook page containing material against its newly appointed chairman, Farooq Awan. It is learnt that the material on the website and the Facebook page contained wrong and baseless information that is […]


Government orders blocking of all blasphemous, pornographic material on Internet

ISLAMABAD: The government has issued a key policy directive to block all blasphemous and pornographic material on the internet by installing effective modern filtration system but ensuring that it does not affect the freedom of information, writes Ansar Abbasi. Following the personal interest shown by the incumbent Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and after consulting […]