Telecom News Bulletin

Pakistan to Ban Google, Youtube if They Don’t ‘Cooperate’: Rehman Malik

Talking to journalists in Karachi, Rehman Malik said that all ISPs of the country must cooperate with the government in their efforts to curb terrorism in the country. He said that any ISP failing to comply with government's policies will be banned and will face suitable penalty. He also said that the terrorists have been [...]

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Rehman Malik Seeks Cooperation of ISPs For Eliminating Terrorism

Interior Minister A Rehman Malik Saturday urged the internet service providers to extend help for exterminating the menace of terrorism from the country. Talking to media men here at FIA headquarters, he said the government would be compelled to block certain internet service provider’s sites, if they did not extend cooperation to the government. Taliban [...]

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Unregistered SIMs Declared The Base Of All Criminal Activity

Unregistered SIM is being considered the result of all the crimes happening in our society especially some common one like extortion and kidnapping for the sake of money and all that is carried out by unregistered SIMs. The chief of the Citizens-Police liaison Committee (CPLC) Ahmed Chinoy agrees with all the businessmen who blame unregistered [...]

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Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Joins Twitter

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the Chairman of PPP and the only son of Benazir Bhutto has finally joined twitter too. His handle is  @BBhuttoZardari. His first tweet read; '@AseefaBZ how do i fix my profile picture so our faces aren’t cut off?' Aseefa is his sister who welcomed him on twitter and said he was the 'real' [...]

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PAK-UAE Dialogues For The Recovery Of $800 Million From Etisalat End Up With No Results

Pakistan Telecommunication Company is Pakistan’s state owned telecom company but few of its shares are sold to the foreign UAE Company named as Etisalat. The reason for PTCL’s privatization is its smooth running and to equip it with latest technological advancements. Etisalat group has bought 26% shares of PTCL but the problem is that Etisalat [...]

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Top PPP Ministers SIMs Still Unverified

The recent PTA drive of registering SIM in the name of user makes interesting yet sensitive reading as according to The News that Top PPP ministers Rehman Malik, Firdous Ashiq, Mukhtar Ahmed and Manzoor Wattoo are using unverified SIM cards, while the PTA launched the third phase of the SIM verification on the Request of Rehman Malik.

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Rehman Malik Orders For Unbranded Phone of Same IMEI Mobile Phones

Interior Minister Rehman Malik procured unsmiling observe of the usage of unlawful mobile SIM as well as order verification of all prepay mobile SIM within 30 days. Presiding larger than a lofty level meeting of the heads of mobile companies at this point at the Ministry of Interior, he said in spite of serious fear of the government the issue of cellular SIM verification is not mortal addressed correctly by mobile companies.

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