After a recent spate of sectarian violence broke out in Gilgit, Baltistan, the government imposed Section 144* as riot control. The sectarian violence in Gilgit has cost over 16 lives...
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Posted by | March 27, 2012
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 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 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...
Posted by | March 4, 2012
[<a href="http://storify.com/sanasaleem/pakistan-campaign-against-internet-censorship-in-p" target="_blank">View the story "Pakistan:Campaign against Internet Censorship in Pakistan" on Storify</a>] As we continue the campaign against internet censorship, we feel it is crucial to inform supporters in...
Posted by | March 1, 2012
Efforts have been made by governments around the world, both authoritarian and democratic, to shut down Web sites, silence bloggers, filter out certain words or censor negative information.In order to highlight the...
Posted by | February 29, 2012
What would happen if a content filtration system such as the one The National ICT R&D Fund has advertised seeking proposals for were put in place? How would it affect the privacy...
Posted by | February 28, 2012
Block, ban, censor. These seem to be the only options ever considered by the Pakistan government when it comes to the Internet. Ever since the 2010 ban on Facebook was...
Posted by | February 27, 2012
Background: 'Firms Aided Libyan Spies', Wall Street Journal: August 30, 2011, article here 'Spy Companies & Their Authoritarian Customers, Part 1: FinFisher And Amesys', Electronic Frontier Foundation: February 16, 2012,...
Posted by | February 25, 2012
People certainly know how to push our buttons and get us to react in a way that is detrimental to ourselves. Yet again history is repeating itself. Someone puts up...
