Pakistani Censorship Downs YouTube–Globally!

by iFaqeer 
In my last post, I mentioned the then breaking story that the Pakistan Telecomm Authority was in the process of blocking YouTube from the country. The “reason” given a video that was disrespectful to “An Hazrat, Maulana Mohammad, Rasul Allah”, as we are wont to say in Pakistan, or “The Gentleman, Our Lord, Mohammad, […]

Pakistan’s YouTube ban briefly affected worldwide access

Pakistan's YouTube ban briefly affected worldwide accessAFP - 21 minutes agoSAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — YouTube said Monday that an Internet service provider complying with Pakistan's freshly-instated ban on the website routed many …

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Pakistan Election Poll Rigging Videos

Take a look at these two controversial Pakistan election poll rigging videos. These videos are the reason that Pakistani Government now has a ban on YouTube.
Pakistan Election Poll Rigging Video (YouTube)

Pakistan Election Poll Rigging Video (VidPk)

See more videos on vidPK.com
MQM Rigging Polls in Karachi (GEO News)

MQM Rigging Polls in Karachi (GEO News) (Vidpk)

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Musharraf’s inquisition: Reason why Youtube was blocked in Pakistan

It is being claimed by the telecommunication authorities in Pakistan that youtube was blocked for featuring allegedly blasphemous documentaries. While this move if triggered by this motive is as foolish as burning an entire library just because on a page of one of the books someone has scribbled a couple of words against you, it […]

Democracy Rules! Pakistan Blocks/Bans YouTube

There’s an old (from our youth :p) Bollywood song that goes “Main ro’oon ya hansoon; karoon mai kyaa karoon?!” or “Should I cry or laugh; To do, what do I do?”
Users subscribing to the Internet though the PTCL (Pakistan Telecom Corporation Limited, the semi- or formerly-government-owned corporation), in particular, have been getting the following message […]

Musharraf gets 85 per cent airtime on PTV

via The Hoot:
Reporters Without Borders has monitored the state-owned TV broadcaster PTV’s coverage of the parliamentary election campaign since 28 January and has found that, despite an effort to assign some space to all the main political parties, most of the air time has been given over to the parties that support President Pervez Musharraf, […]

Media still in fetters in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A private news network was taken off air late Wednesday night when it was airing some anti-government comments in one of its talk shows. It is for the second time that such action has been taken in Pakistan, despite assurances by President Pervez Musharraf to his allies that he would uphold media freedom.
According to […]

Baitullah Mehsud’s First Television Interview

Ahmad Zaidan, al-Jazeera’s Islamabad bureau chief, interviewed Baitullah Mehsud in December. The video, provided above, was aired on the station a few days ago. It’s Mehsud’s first television interview.
The leader of Tehreek-e Taliban-e Pakistan (Taliban Movement of Pakistan) speaks in Pashto (translated by AJ into Arabic) while Zaidan presents the questions in Arabic.
[Note: I am […]

60 suicide bombing took place in Pakistan in 2007

ISLAMABAD: Deadly suicide bombings are becoming an accepted part of daily life in Pakistan, with each new attack appearing to chip away at President Pervez Musharraf’s weakening popularity. Close to 60 attacks across the country in 2007, up tenfold from the previous year, are increasing security fears in urban areas.
Violent attacks are moving from rural […]

Mushahid welcomes Geo restoration

ISLAMABAD: The PML (Q) Secretary General and Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Mushahid Hussain has welcomed the restoration of Geo News and termed it as a victory for a free and independent media. Talking to reporters here on Monday, he said that the freedom of press and democracy were twin pillars of the new […]