Ministry of Finance website redirecting to obscene content

Ministry of Finance-Porn website

Pakistan is in dire need of cash as the country suffers longest hours of loadshedding due to absence of funds to pay the power companies and this is why a team of Pakistani professionals is visiting US for a possible help from IMF/World Bank. This is … [Read more...]

Vine porn search on Twitter: A dilemma for many

Twitter video sharing

Vine porn search has been quite the buzzword ever since Twitter launched its new 6 seconds video sharing feature. The app available on iPhone and iPod Touch can let users search for porn and explicit videos easily. Even though Vine has overtly … [Read more...]

Internet Traffic in Pakistan: the good, the bad, the ugly

internet traffic and porn in pakistan

As mentioned in our previous article, Pakistan still comes at a high rank when it comes to searching porn on Google despite all the bans and restrictions placed on web surfing. Where our aim was reporting the facts, it was also critical analysis of … [Read more...]

PTA issues notification to unblock YouTube

pta issues direction to unblock youtube

PTA has finally issued directions to all the ISPs, Telecom and IT companies to unblock the famous video sharing website YouTube in spite of the fact that blasphemous material still exists and Google hasn't promised to open its office in … [Read more...]

Rehman Malik decides to open YouTube finally

Rehman Malik proposes end of prepaid mobile phone SIMs

Government has decided to open the YouTube in next few hours. This was announced by Interior Minister and Senator Rehman Malik on his twitter page. He chaired a high level meeting today with all the stake holders and discussed matter regarding … [Read more...]

Pakistanis still search for porn websites on Google despite of ban

Pakistanis still search for porn websites on Google despite of ban

Pakistanis searched 'sex' the most in 2011, Google records had confirmed. After almost a year has passed, the results are no different. Although, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had taken notice of massively visited porn sites in the … [Read more...]

Massive filtering of internet in next 60 days: Chairman PTA says

Chairman PTA receives unwanted SMS himself

Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has denied the formation of any such mechanism that would monitor emails and phone calls in Pakistan as PTA does not have such mandate, however, he has confirmed that all that in next 60 days a new … [Read more...]

Egyptian government to control internet

Egyptian government to control internet

Following a massive social unrest and protests that ousted Hosni Mubarik from the power,  the military government is planning to block the access of adult online content in the name of "banning the pornography", a local newspaper reported. The … [Read more...]