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Committee Formed to Block Websites

Sept 2nd 2006, The Government of Pakistan has dealt yet another severe blow to the Internet community in Pakistan, as it has now created a body constituted by the Ministry of Information Technology which would examine contents of websites reported or found to be offensive or containing anti-state material and block them off in Pakistan.
It [...]

Blogspot Ban Reinstated

After exactly 18 days of true Internet freedom, Pakistan is yet again subjected to a total blackout of the entire Blogspot domain, at precisely 3:00pm (PST) reports have continued to pour in that Blogspot has become inaccessible to the users in Pakistan, although now official statement has been issue d in the regard but a [...]

Wordpress Codex Site Blocked

In another astonishing move by the Government of Pakistan it appears that the website http://codex.wordpress.org where exists the help and documentation files of the ever popular Content Management System - Wordpress have been blocked for all users and developers in Pakistan. This can be considered as a severe blow to the promotion of the [...]

Blogspot Unblocked

The PTA has yet again decided to unblock all blogs located on the blogspot domain, we proceed with caution and simply watch and see if this is a permanent change or just a temporary relief till they resume the blocking all over again.
Attached is a Trace Route of a Blogspot Blog that verifies the unblocked [...]

PkBlogs URL Script for Website Owners

In light of the recent blogspot ban in India, the blogging community in Pakistan would like to present as a gift to the Indian blogging community a small script that can be inserted into their websites which converts all Blogspot links into a URL utilizing the proxy servers of pkblogs.com
Credit goes out to Adnan [...]

Earthquake Fund Raising Effort

Help-Pakistan.com is a project that was launched soon after the October 8th earthquake that shook most of northern Pakistan and parts of India causing a loss of more than 78,000 lives and making 3.3 million people homeless. It is the brainchild of Dr. Awab Alvi, who realized, soon after the earthquake, the need for an [...]

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