Comments on: Pakistan: Blog-o-block

By: Khwaja Aftab Ali

Khwaja Aftab Ali — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:06:34 +0000

FACTS ON THE GROUND IN PAKISTAN.Reference to the Islamic history and Pakistan’s independance period, I want to go a step further and will recomend to select/elect every Chief of Army staff as president after retirement and the present Army chief should be be given extra time for his oustanding services at national and international level and all other Corps. Commanders of the Army and COS of Airforce and Navy should be apponited Governors and Deputy Governors of the provinces and regions ( by creating regional governments in all four provinces, 2 in Punjab 1 in each province- these regions already exist based on language, culture and history , such as Saraiki, Potahari, Upper Sind-Sukkar, Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP and Gawadar- Balouch Area. And all additional bureaucrates who love to live in provincial capitals should be trasfered to these remote areas of the country. These new regions should invite and attrect the foreigner and Pakistani origin people to invest in the area to creat jobs and eliminate poverty.) This is the only way we can stop further intereption/ coup in Pakistan . After all armed forces personnel are wel diciplined and organized . And above all represent Pakistan’s divercified population.And it;s leadership do not transfer within family but earned by hardwork and talents only. Every second family in Pakistan is represented in the army one way or the other and the Pakistan Army is the only ever lasting popular party-yes it’s an important ruling party other than Bhuttos and anti-Bhuttos, Sharif brothers. With this arrangement no one is loser except few feudals and industrialists, who reprent non of the masses in Pakistan. We already have a quota system applied for superior services since 30 years and had killed thousands of innocent talented young people, why not try this arrangement for the welfare of the country which will effect none but very few so called politicians who after all deal with generals, behind the curtains.And it’s good to know that supporters of these politician are 500/600 Mafia families who live in 125 districts in Pakistan and provide so called public leadership for national, provincial and local levels. Any restriction to stop them is useless. Recent example of education condition brought their unseen educated women forward in politics. All 8000/9000 candidates in recent elections were from the same mafia group who are the biggest law breakers and around 1000 leading law breakers have been elected as new law makers who will take care of themselves but none. They all are involved in worst kind of crimes on this earth against humanity with the colaboration of junior police officials.An enquiry by a nuetral agency may prove my claim.WOULD THE EDITOR PUBLISH THIS LETTER in the larger interest of the nation. KHWAJA AFTAB ALI,(a former Secretary Iranian Embassy, Saudi Arabia,1975-88), first and only post graduate of Intellectual Property Laws on scholarship from USA. Residing in Orlando, Florida.U.S.A. email.all_languages@ hotmail.com phone 4077293983
Posted by Khwaja Aftab Ali, Advocate & I.P. Attorney, Pakistan

By: Readers Edition » Pakistan außer Kontrolle - Eine Blogschau

Readers Edition » Pakistan außer Kontrolle - Eine Blogschau — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:14:16 +0000

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By: fazal

fazal — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 00:23:43 +0000

dear all
i would like to commnet on present plolitical activities in paksitan , any body knows any blog sites on our news channels like arydigital and geo.tv etc

in my opnion the sitting minister are not defending them selves the right way on religious front and on judicial front
i would like a site where i can blog about current political events

Regards

By: Omer Alvie

Omer Alvie — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:45:29 +0000

Shirazi,
I can confirm (as of now – August 10th, 2006) the ban seems to be lifted. But the ban has been lifted several times before and has returned after a few hours/days. Best to wait and see what happens now..

By: shirazi

shirazi — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 08:00:01 +0000

Ban seems to have been lifted, or am I imagining.

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Sat, 22 Jul 2006 23:52:46 +0000

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By: Omer Alvie

Omer Alvie — Wed, 03 May 2006 15:34:39 +0000

Update: As of 2nd May, 2006 (20:00), it was confirmed by various credible sources that the blanket ban on blogspot.com domain has now been lifted.

I would like to thank everyone who supported our Dont Block The Blog campaign. I would like to think that the lifting of the ban had some to do with all our collective efforts.

DBTB campaign page still remains online to continue our efforts in highlighting the ban issue, in support of free internet speech and in case that the lifting of the blogspot ban turns out to be temporary.

Congratulations to all who fought to highlight this unfair ban.

Let us all remain committed and continue fighting.

By: Afghan LORD

Afghan LORD — Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:12:10 +0000

Blogger service is not working in Pakistan. I am in Pakistan right now can not access to my blog http://afghanlord.blogspot.com.

By: pakistanwatch

pakistanwatch — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:56:44 +0000

While the blocking of blogspot.com is a very sad move does anyone else not see irony of the protesting against this move while Google (owners of blogspot.com) blocks access to many websites in accordance to the political wishes of the Chinese government….

Shame on the Pakistani authorities and shame on Google too.

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:24:52 +0000

The creative mind of a few local Pakistanis Yasir Memon & Naveed Memon – has created this nifty utility for those individuals in Pakistan stuck behind the Government supported censorship on our Internet

The way this service works is that you can simply go-to

http://www.pkblogs.com/blogname

where blogname is “blogname.blogspot.com”

Alternatively head on over to http://www.pkblogs.com – you get NO ads or any annoying pop-up to disturb your surfing experience, the service converts all inside and outside links

By: Moiz

Moiz — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:41:54 +0000

THe ban is still in place. As of 17th March 2006

By: Asma Mirza

Asma Mirza — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 21:03:54 +0000

Good piece here!

But I guess … Ban’s just been lifted !

Anyways, ban on blogspot, which is one of the major service used by Pakistani bloggers in order to air their thoughts their expression is nothing bu a foolish act!

Hope PTA’s over it now!

By: Destitute Rebel

Destitute Rebel — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 14:32:02 +0000

The banners up on my blog and i encourage all to join this campaign, we can not sit idly while our rights are taken away from us one by one, untill we become slaves to our country’s leaders.

By: Farid Pouya

Farid Pouya — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 07:28:35 +0000

Great.I will put it on my blog and I will send it to friends.
Best