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Pakistan: Get by with a little help from my friends

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 @ 16:43 UTC

by Neha Viswanathan

Countries:: India, Pakistan
Topics:: Internet & Telecoms, International Relations

The ban on accessing blogspot blogs seems to have brought Pakistani and Indian bloggers a little closer. Help-Pakistan.com says “In light of the recent blogspot ban in India, the blogging community in Pakistan would like to present as a gift to the Indian blogging community a small script that can be inserted into their websites which converts all Blogspot links into a URL utilizing the proxy servers of pkblogs.com”

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john

of course that’s true

# 2006-07-22 at 4:39 am

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