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  Pakistani Government Plans to Monitor Google, YouTube for 'Blasphemous Material'

  JP 1:46 am on June 29, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  The Facebook-fueled, ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ controversy may have subsided, but the Pakistani government is still doing its best to make sure it never flares up again. According to Reuters, Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology has placed seven major websites under stronger governmental surveillance in an attempt to guarantee that none of the sites contain “blasphemous material.” Pakistan’s list of flagged sites includes heavy hitters like Google, YouTube and Yahoo!, while Facebook and Twitter are conspicuous in their absence.

  Latif Khosa, an IT adviser to the prime minister, confirmed that the agency would not unilaterally block major search engines or websites, for fear of jeopardizing constitutionally guaranteed rights to information. “The constitution of Pakistan ensures access to knowledge, information and education to all citizens of Pakistan. These are the basic rights of the people of Pakistan and Internet is a major source of it,” Khosa says.

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  Bans Prompt Facebook to Pull 'Everybody Draw Mohammed' Page

  JP 1:47 am on June 1, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Following Pakistan’s lead, authorities in Bangladesh recently decided to block access to Facebook, on the grounds that the social networking site contains “objectionable” content about both the Prophet Mohammad and the country’s own political officials. According to CNET, chief telecommunications regulator Zia Ahmed has requested that all Internet providers block the site, until a page publicizing ‘Everybody Draw Mohammed Day’ is taken down. And apparently, it worked.

  Today, the social network finally ceded to protests from both Pakistan and Bangladesh, and removed the controversial page. As the AP reports, Facebook officials assured the Pakistani government that “nothing of this sort will happen in the future,” prompting the country to restore access to the site.

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  Pakistan Blocks Facebook After Muhammad Caricature Contest

  JP 1:48 am on May 24, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  A Pakistani court has ordered the government to block access to Facebook due to a contest involving images of the Prophet Muhammad, and has also asked that the foreign ministry investigate the roots of the competition. The government has complied, telling ISPs in the country to block Facebook and any other site displaying caricatures of the prophet, but the sites have not received court orders as of yet, according to Reuters.

  Any depiction of the Prophet Muhammad is considered blasphemous in Islam, and recent history shows that the cartoons are no laughing matter. In 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 caricatures of Muhammad, with infamous results. Over 100 people died in protests over the cartoons — including five in Pakistan — and the Danish Embassy was bombed by al-Qaeda in 2008.

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  Online Dating Okay in India and Pakistan, But Strange to the West, Study Says

  JP 12:51 am on February 21, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  If Valentine’s Day reminds of one thing, it’s that love, as ABBA once warned us, isn’t easy. And, when the single life becomes especially tiresome, many of us turn to the Internet to flirt, date, or even just chat. While online courtship may have once been stigmatized or discounted as some sort of “last resort,” a new study suggests that our romantic norms may be shifting — in a major way.

  According to a global poll from the BBC World Service, 30-percent of Internet users consider the Web a suitable place to meet significant others. Among the 19 countries covered in the survey, India and Pakistan had the highest percentage of digital daters; about 60-percent of those polled in both countries consider the Internet as worthy a place as any to meet potential partners. In general, Web surfers in developing countries tended to have a more favorable opinion of online romance, while fewer Americans, British and French held similar beliefs. As Yahoo! reports, the poll exposed an educational divide in the sample, as well; 28-percent of users with a college education felt comfortable meeting people on the Internet, compared to 36-percent of those who hadn’t finished high school.

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  Online Dating Okay in India and Pakistan, But Strange to the West, Study Says

  JP 12:51 am on February 20, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  If Valentine’s Day reminds of one thing, it’s that love, as ABBA once warned us, isn’t easy. And, when the single life becomes especially tiresome, many of us turn to the Internet to flirt, date, or even just chat. While online courtship may have once been stigmatized or discounted as some sort of “last resort,” a new study suggests that our romantic norms may be shifting — in a major way.

  According to a global poll from the BBC World Service, 30-percent of Internet users consider the Web a suitable place to meet significant others. Among the 19 countries covered in the survey, India and Pakistan had the highest percentage of digital daters; about 60-percent of those polled in both countries consider the Internet as worthy a place as any to meet potential partners. In general, Web surfers in developing countries tended to have a more favorable opinion of online romance, while fewer Americans, British and French held similar beliefs. As Yahoo! reports, the poll exposed an educational divide in the sample, as well; 28-percent of users with a college education felt comfortable meeting people on the Internet, compared to 36-percent of those who hadn’t finished high school.

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  Pakistans meistgesuchter Terrorist getötet - RP ONLINE

  JP 1:58 am on August 8, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
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  Pakistans meistgesuchter Terrorist getötet RP ONLINE Kabul. Der pakistanische Taliban-Führer Baitullah Mehsud ist nach Angaben eines seiner Kommandeure bei einem US-Angriff getötet worden. Mit ihm sei auch seine zweite Frau ums Leben gekommen, sagte Kafayat Ullah. Auf Mehsuds Konto gehen mehrere … Pakistan: Kampf gegen Taliban bekommt AufwindFOCUS Online Chef der pakistanischen Taliban getötetNZZ Online Totgesagter Taliban-Chef soll wirklich tot seinWELT ONLINE Spiegel Online -FR-online.de -derStandard.at Alle 336 Artikel »