Topic: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority
Pakistan rowed back on Tuesday from demands that text messages containing nearly 1,700 "obscene" words should be blocked, following outrage from users and campaigners.On November 14, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) distributed a list of 1,695 words in English ...
Pakistan's mobile operators on Monday deferred implementing a ban on nearly 1,700 "obscene" words from text messages, saying they were seeking further clarification from the telecoms authority.The list, including words from "quickie" to "fairy" to "Jesus Christ" and obtained ...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has instructed telecommunications operators in the country to filter SMS (Short Message Service) ...
Pakistan's mobile operators were Sunday scrambling to block text messages containing any of over 1,600 "obscene" terms banned by the country's telecoms authority ahead of a Monday deadline.The list, including words from "quickie" to "fairy" to "Jesus Christ ...
Techworld - Pakistan's notoriously censorious telecoms authority has reportedly asked the country's ISPs to block commercial VPN connections as a...
The Pakistan issue is something totally different, and according to an un-attributed statement that may be real or not, something Facebook feels is not their fault. There is a Facebook page which is running a contest Pakistan finds objectionable. Facebook is very ...
Pakistan's government ordered the monitoring of websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for "anti-Islam content" Friday, an official said, amid renewed tensions over the Internet."The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has received orders from the ministry of information technology to monitor ...
A Pakistani court has ordered the authorities to block access to nine websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for allegedly offending Muslims with blasphemous material.Judge Mazhar Iqbal ordered Pakistan's Telecommunications Authority to block the websites due to "material against the ...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Monday lifted a ban on social networking website Facebook which had carried a competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad, but access to any "blasphemous" material will remain blocked, officials said.Any representation of the Prophet Mohammad ...
Pakistan restored access to popular video website YouTube, but Facebook and 1,200 web pages remained blocked Thursday as a row about "blasphemous" content on the Internet rumbled into a second week.A contest organised by a user of social networking site ...
