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Pak's new social media rules give more powers to govt, companies to be fin
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 15 (ANI): Pakistan's Ministry of Information and Technology announced new social media rules on Thursday that will empower the telecom regulator to block any website or platform on the directives of court and federal government or under any law, reported local m
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Pakistan's Punjab govt bars teachers from using social media
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 8 (ANI): Pakistan's Punjab government has barred college teachers from using social media platforms and speaking to the conventional media.
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Afghan social media campaign calls for sanctions on Pak over Taliban offen
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], August 12 (ANI): A massive social media campaign in Afghanistan is demanding sanctions on Pakistan as people believe that Islamabad is behind the Taliban's destructive offensive in the country.
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Pak's amended social media rules again fuel tensions with internet compani
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): Internet companies in Pakistan have once again protested against the government's amended social media rules, stating that the most problematic provisions remain unchanged in the latest draft that they say has in fact 'regressed' in comparison with previo
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Social media suspended in Pakistan, interior ministry says without citing
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], April 16 (ANI): Social media platforms Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram have been suspended in Pakistan from 11 am till 3 pm, the interior ministry said on Friday.
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Tech companies express concern over Pak's new social media regulations, sa
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], November 20 (ANI): A day after the Pakistan government notified rules defining how social media would be governed in the country, technology companies announced that the newly-imposed regulations would make it difficult for them to continue their operations here.
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Pakistan: Reports on blocking social media over blasphemous content 'false
Updated : 6 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 27 (ANI): The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) on Friday strongly rejected media reports regarding the blocking of social media websites in the country over blasphemous content.
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'Operation Kund shows humane face of security forces in Kashmir'
Updated : 8 years, 3 months ago IST
Srinagar (Jammu and Kashmir) [India] Nov. 16 (ANI): The Operation Kund in the Kashmir Valley has brought to the fore the humane face of security forces, which ensured that the surrendered militants are saved and don't get into the cross-fire, said Inspector General of Police (Kashmir) Munir
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Pakistan: Social media activist arrested for flagging rights violations in
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Aug.11 (ANI): Police in Gilgit-Baltistan's Hunza region have confirmed the arrest this week of a well known social media activist for posting material that they said was in violation of the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Cyber Crime Act 2016.
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