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  • Facebook's top political articles for 2011

    Facebook has released a list of 40 political articles. According to the company, these are the most shared political articles on the social network so far in 2011.

    Blog posts | December 16, 2011 10:17am PST

  • NASA images capture extent of Pakistan flooding (photos)

    Images from instruments aboard NASA satellites show the devastation caused by massive flooding along the Indus and Kabul rivers in Pakistan.

  • Cartoon contest leads Pakistan to shutter Facebook

    A Seattle cartoonist's satirical suggestion that Thursday be dubbed "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" has led to Pakistan shutting down Facebook.

    News items | May 20, 2010 6:40am PDT

  • Pakistan continues crackdown on illegal VOIP gateway networks

    The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has raided and seized 15 IP-based gateways that connected inbound voice traffic from abroad into the country.

    Blog posts | October 15, 2009 6:07am PDT

  • How Internet surveillance, IT sleuth work helped indict suspected terrorist Zazi

    The indictment of suspected terrorist Najibullah Zazi, charged with acquiring and preparing bombs similar to the ones deployed in the 2005 London subway attacks, rides on Zazi's Internet...

    Blog posts | September 25, 2009 5:39am PDT

  • Cyber terrorists to face death penalty in Pakistan

    According to a recently signed "Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2008" in Pakistan, any person who commits cyberterrorism causing the death of other people will face death penalty or life...

    Blog posts | November 10, 2008 12:29pm PST

  • $1.5 bln spent on telecom and IT in Pakistan in 2007

    Small and medium businesses in Pakistan invested more than $1.5 bln on ICT (info-communications technology) in 2007, AMI Partners said. Only 14% of SBs in Pakistan have adopted computers at present.

    Blog posts | March 23, 2008 11:24pm PDT

  • Pakistan on the YouTube black hole: Never mind

    Having neatly knocked YouTube off the net for several hours, exposing a key vulnerability in the BRG system and creating a small tumult within Pakistan, the government has now changed course and...

    Blog posts | February 26, 2008 9:19am PST

  • YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses

    It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend....

    Blog posts | February 25, 2008 7:08am PST

  • Pakistan removed from the Internet

    4:30 PM Eastern (US). The telecom company that carries most of Pakistan's traffic, PCCW, has found it necessary to shut Pakistan off from the Internet while they filter out the malicious routes...

    Blog posts | February 24, 2008 1:40pm PST

  • Pakistan declares war on YouTube

    What could at first have been just one of those days on the Internet where some newbie engineer accidentally announces a spurious route and takes out a segment of the network has turned into an...

    Blog posts | February 24, 2008 12:36pm PST

  • Pakistan takes out YouTube

    Like I said in a recent post, the Internet is a series of tubes. Sometimes that helps route around malicious legislation and regulators, sometimes it causes big problems. Like today at 2 PM...

    Blog posts | February 24, 2008 12:16pm PST

  • Photo: From Pakistan to California

    Zamir Haider, a visiting journalist from Islamabad, Pakistan, takes in the sights in downtown San Francisco.

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