Update: Pakistan Tehrik-Insaf issued press release denouncing attacks on Bolta Pakistan Facebook Page. Recently, the Facebook account of Bolta Pakistan, a popular TV talk show hosted by senior journalist...
Posted by | March 25, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Addressed to: The National Assembly, The Senate & The Supreme Court of Pakistan On 10th of May'2011, the National Assembly unanimously passed the Acid Control and Acid Crime Bill. The bill...
Posted by | March 20, 2012
Master Ayub has been teaching unprivileged children for over a decade. In an open air classroom in a park in Sector F-6, he teaches over 200 children free of cost....
Posted by | March 19, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Press Release Cautious Celebration: Report Suggests Pakistan IT Ministry Withdraw Internet Censorship Plans On Monday, the 19th of March, the Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT) confirmed to Member...
Posted by | March 14, 2012
This week we launched a campaign with Access Now, building pressure on international companies to not respond to national URL filtering proposal. In the past few weeks, thanks to the...
Posted by | March 13, 2012
Access, global movement for digital freedom, have launched a campaign to pressure international companies not to bid for Pakistan's pending firewall. Our partners, in the campaign, Business Human Rights Resource...
Posted by | March 8, 2012
We sent a letter to the Chief Justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudary on the 5th of March'2012. We have not received a response from his office. A copy of the letter is...
Posted by | March 7, 2012
PRESS KIT On Wednesday, the 22nd of February, the ICT R&D Fund under the Ministry of Information Technology (MoIT), announced through newspapers and their website a Request For...
Posted by | March 6, 2012
New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/03/technology/pakistan-builds-web-wall-out-in-the-open.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/03/02/pakistans-open-war-on-the-internet/ TIMES: http://www.time.com/time/quotes/0,26174,2108224,00.html Global Voices: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/02/28/pakistan-fighting-the-great-firewall/ The News Tribe: http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/09/21/suspension-of-cellular-services-seems-useless/ Firewall Looming: http://speakforchange.org/firewall-looming-in-pakistan/ Business Recorder: http://www.brecorder.com/br-research/44:44/2346:building-the-countrys-great-firewall/?date=2012-03-06 The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/20/pakistan-blocks-twitter-blasphemy-fears Hardnews: http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2012/05/5201 The Express Tribune: http://tribune.com.pk/story/421505/pta-called-out-for-protecting-those-in-corridors-of-power/ Global Voices: http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2014/08/13/human-rights-experts-pakistan-could-become-a-police-state-under-protection-ordinance/ Dawn: http://www.dawn.com/news/1108341/analysis-censoring-tweets-in-pakistan The Express...
Posted by | March 6, 2012
Our campaign partners, Business Human Rights Resource Centre, confirmed to us that Sandvine, Verizon and Cisco committed not to apply for Pakistan Government's call for proposal. Business Human Rights Resource...
