Pakistan will monitor seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, to block anti-Islamic links and content, an official said Friday. Seventeen lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material. The moves follow Pakistan's temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May that drew both praise and condemnation in a country...
Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology has confirmed the ban orders from LHC for search engines, including Google, Yahoo, MSN and other big websites as Hotmail, Amazon.However officials say that as possible about any decision will be made Friday. This is the first time that any court of Pakistan has ordered such a large number of search...
LHC orders PTA to ban the 9 big giants including Google, Yahoo and Bing in the accusation of blasphemy and publishing modified contents in The Quran. Sudden orders were issued as the petition submitted by a Bahawalpur citizen, who provided court with proofs. Ban list includes: Google Yahoo Bing YouTube Hotmail MSN Amazon IslamExposed InTheNameofAllah Muhammad...
The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission ordered access to Facebook restored around midnight Saturday, and the site was available Sunday, said the commission's chairman, Zia Ahmed. Facebook had removed the objectionable page, he said. The page could not be accessed in Bangladesh on Sunday. Hundreds of protesters marched through...
A 12-day Facebook blockade in Pakistan which formally ended yesterday benefited cellular phone firms, which witnessed an increase by more than 5 per cent in SMS traffic in the period. Telecom sector sources said the overall voice traffic witnessed more than 5-7 per cent surge by the users of social networking sites opted SMS as ......
After the order of unbanning facebook in Pakistan, ISP got working, lifting the ban as per PTA orders. PTCL seemed to be least interested in lifting the ban at once, but now it is confirmed that facebook has also been unbanned on PTCL and majority of other ISP's in country. As soon as the LHC directed ......
Geo News confirms that LHC has ordered PTA to lift ban on facebook. The ban on facebook prolonged for nearly two weeks after the popular social networking website was blocked nationwide in a row over blasphemy. Furthermore GEO states, facebook has assured not to conduct these kind of contests in future. Justice Ejaz Chaudhry of the ......
The government of Bangladesh temporarily blocked access to Facebook on Saturday. The highly popular social network site was shut down at around 7:00 pm (local time) after the arrest of a youth in connection with uploading satiric images of some politicians including the prime minister and the leader of the opposition. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)...
