(March 31st 2006 13:00) The Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) controlled by Pakistan Telcommuncation Authority (PTA) has started to block the entire domain of Wikipedia. Wikipedia can be considered to be the single largest storehouse of knowledge having 3.5 million pages hosted on the domain. It seems as if the authorities are extending their [...]

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Published in The Washington Post by Jeff Morley
“Americans will support the Pakistani people as they take further steps toward democracy,” declared President Bush at a state dinner in Pakistan last Saturday.
One of those steps, say two Pakistani bloggers, would be to restore the country’s access a huge number of blogs on the Internet. As Bush [...]

Written by: Mehreen Zahra-Malik
Publihsed in: The Friday Times
The government’s enthusiasm to block sites hosting the blasphemous cartoons has led to the demise of blogging in Pakistan
The Danish cartoon controversy has claimed yet another victim here: Pakistani bloggers. This is how it goes.
On February 27, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) directed all Internet [...]

Joining hands to Condemn Censorship of
Blogs in Pakistan

LAUNCHED BY THE ALVI-E TEAM (Awab Alvi & Omer Alvie) on March 3rd 2006, this is an online campaign to support free speech of Pakistani bloggers and internet free speech in general. Support our cause by copying the banner code (below) to your web site.
Since 28th February [...]