Govt. pressurizes the Dawn Group

The CEO of the Dawn Group has written an open letter to the Government, which is also copied below in case they take it down from their website. It is quite comprehensive and details the various methods the Govt. uses to make sure the media toes the party line. Though these days, despite all the [...]

Posted at 12pm on 4/26/07 | no comments; | Filed Under: censorship, pakistan | read on

Geo TV office ransacked by Police

First the government pressurized the media not to talk about the events surrounding the illegal sacking of the Chief Justice by Musharraf. Then it banned a news pro gramme. Finally, it attacked the office of Geo News and the Jang Newspaper, respectively the most popular urdu news channel and the urdu newspaper in Pakistan.
Police entered [...]

Posted at 7pm on 3/18/07 | no comments; | Filed Under: censorship, pakistan, pta | read on

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The Pakistan govenment has been attempting to censor the Internet, in fits and starts over the years.  This website is an attempt to catalogue these censorship attempts as they happen.

Pakistan has a long history of censorship, from banning books & magazines to shutting down newspapers and jailing journalists. In the early 2000’s internet usage took off in Pakistan, bringing it to the attention of the government. Sadly, the government has been trying to restrict access to the internet by monitoring and filtering all internet traffic, in the process slowing internet speed for everyone, and violating basic human rights, as specified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which Pakistan is a signatory to.

See the Wikipedia article for a good overview of Internet Censorship in Pakistan.

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