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Are 226 thousand Facebook fans enough to bring back Musharraf

General Pervez Musharraf who served army for long time, lately as chief of army staff, then lately he was also forced chief executive and forced president of Pakistan for period of about 8 years, he is now hopping to come back to Pakistani politics once again. Because of the way he came into government, took over the country and specially some of his decisions in his time in government he was very much unpopular in people. Now after he was no more in government in accordance with the people’s and other politician’s wishes, he happened to create his personal fan page on Facebook. Which gradually became popular, soon he had more fans on Facebook than any other Pakistani person who […]

Inside Story

Bloggers from Pakistan where is the bright side

I have been an active Internet surfer from long time ago, so have been monitoring the bloggers from Pakistan from long time. In fact their role was very much good in pointing out the evils of society. Bloggers even came forward and presented the stories which were avoided by media in fear of losing their financial gains or liberty to operate. I see lots of positive criticism on the Pakistani blogs, specially the one which is related to politics, I also see posts which point out the evils of society and I also see the pictures which depict something which is happening wrong somewhere. I know this all content on Pakistani blogs is intended for good, intended to correct the […]

Automobile

Luxury tax on imported vehicles lifted in Punjab

Government of Punjab just announced the waiver of luxury tax which was applicable to imported cars category of 2000 cc and above. For 2000 cc to 3000 cc vehicles this was two hundred thousand rupees and for more than 3000 cc vehicles this was three hundred thousand rupees. This was the extra amount which had to be paid at the time of vehicle registration after the amounts spent on other taxes and custom duties etc. This tax was not there for long for the imported vehicles, this was made applicable just a year or so back and now suddenly waived. Interestingly the year before the tax was made applicable 1250 vehicles were registered in luxury cars category but after the […]

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PTA fails to keep people informed about banned and unbanned websites

It is 30th may today and the last update on PTA’s website about the blocked websites was on 2oth of may. They even didn’t even mentioned any other blocked websites other than the Facebook and Youtube on their website. Hundreds of URLs were blocked and some of websites like Facebook , wikipedia, youtube and many more had faced blanket ban but PTA never mentioned about these banned websites on their website. Youtube is already unblocked few days ago but still no update about that on their website. Whats more important is Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) never published the details of blocked websites over the internet nor they have updated people about when certain websites are being banned or unbanned. It […]

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Proxy websites blocked in Pakistan, Whats the point?

In connection with the issue of blasphemous violent content, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked many websites and many people including me supported this decision of PTA. Banning the websites in Pakistan should have not mainly to prevent local people from accessing the blasphemous content but to make a statement to sites that your racism regarding the religion will not be accepted. Considering the fact that Pakistan is an Islamic state and people at least have love for prophet Muhammad, no one would be willing to see that blasphemous content. But unfortunately PTA took things here differently, they gone few steps further and also blocked the proxy website. Chairman PTA: We have blocked a number of sites having the blasphemous content […]