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Our Blog has been selected for Nomination

Thank you for your support on the issue of Pornography, and being a valued member of our group SAY NO TO PORN, Lets wage a War Against Pornography in Pakistan, Thank you for being its valuable member, it is further significant to be noted here that we have also created a blog on the main subject, we have applied for Pakistan Blog Awards, and our blog has been selected for nomination, now we need maximum number of votes to be cast in its favour, with your sincerity as well in the rights of our noble cause, vote for us in Pakistan Blog Award if you think that we deserve it. 

Click the Link Given below and open it, Click on "Stars" and Vote us as 5 Star then comment back there and let us know that how can we improve this blog and our noble cause as well.
Let's come and put hand in hand to make a chain of hope for better future of Pakistan

Thank you.

http://pakistanblogawards.com/2011/11/19/best-social-activist-blog-sultan-alam/

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WE HAVE ALSO APPLIED FOR THE NOMINATION IN PAKISTAN BLOG AWARDS LETS PRAY , MAY WE BE ACCEPTED!!

Dear all friends,

I've filed a nomination of our blog at Pakistan Blog Awards, 2011, www.pakistanblogawards.com in Social Activist Category and the good news is that, we've received the recommendation & appreciation from their nomination selectors for such a good work, I think it's worth for us, either our blog has in queue section.
There're 350 entries that's would be select for the final nomination, 150's are done and 200 remaining, which is almost full and further expected.
Let's wage a war against Pornography and it's team further continues it's endevours towards success and hope for better future and culture in Pakistan.

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PTA may ban over 1,500 English and Urdu words in mobile SMS

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) imposing a ban on porn sites in the country, a new PTA letter floating online orders the imposition of a “system” to ban select words in mobile SMS messages.

A set of two extensive lists in English and Urdu (lists are enclosed at bottom) have allegedly been compiled by the PTA. The list of English words crosses the 1,000 figure, while the Urdu list contains over 550 words.

A scan of the letter (dated November 14, 2011) sent from Muhammad Talib Doger, Director General (Services) PTA, states that the filtering of content through SMS must be considered under the scope of “Protection from Spam, Unsolicited, Fraudulent and Obnoxious Communication Regulations, 2009″ and the SOPs laid down to control spamming. The letter is written with reference to a meeting held with mobile phone operators on October 18, 2011 in Islamabad.
PTA has ordered the implementation of the system within seven days of the issuance of the said letter. All operators have been asked to submit a monthly report to PTA regarding the number of blocked text messages.
“Spamming” has been defined as:

The transmission of harmful, fraudulent, misleading, illegal or unsolicited messages in bulk to any person without express permission of the recipient, or causing any electronic system to show any such message or is being involved in falsified online user account registration or falsified domain name registration for commercial purpose.

The letter states that under the “provisions and dictum” by the higher courts, the “fundamental rights of privacy and freedom of speech and expressions guaranteed under the constitution are not unrestricted and are subject to reasonable restrictions imposed by law”.
Clause (d) of sub-section (1) of section 31 of the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act, 1996 states that:

Whoever “unauthorisedly transmits through a telecommunication system or telecommunication service any intelligence which he knows or has reason to be false, fabricated, indecent or obscene” is an offence under the Act.

Content filtering may be done through “through automated machine process(s)/function(s)”  without reading or disclosing “content of intelligence” by a human being in order to protect consumers under provisions of the Act.
Under license condition No.7.8 of the cellular mobile license:

The Licensee shall take all reasonable steps to track, locate and prevent the source of harassing, unsolicited, offensive, fraudulent or unlawful communication.

Director PR for PTA, Mohammad Younis, while speaking to The Express Tribune, said that he was not aware of any such letter being sent out, adding that many letters are sent out to operators every day, and not all of them go through the PR office.
Speaking on whether the PTA had taken a decision on SMS filtering in the past, Younis said that the authority does not take such decisions and only passes on the instructions to licensees once a decision is taken by a ministerial committee.
While much of the list contains expletives, a number of words to be banned include medical terms, terms used by particular minority groups, common words from the English language and rap group, WuTang Clan.
                                                           (Ref: Jahanzaib Haque / Shaheryar Popalzai)

Banned English Words
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B7kpm2zU1oWEZjAyZGNjNjUtOTIyMy00ODk5LTk0NzctZGM1NTNhNTdhZTU4&hl=en_US&pli=1

Banned Urdu Words
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hXnoxOWYHvE7i3dvs1TOk0_2FHLUtViHRPMoztT5Cfs/edit?pli=1 

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Pakistan Blocks Thousands of Adult Websites

Pakistani internet service providers have started the process of blocking websites with adult and explicit content, told us multiple sources from the industry. According to resources, the initial stage of blocking these websites has been done and more websites will be added to block list as they are spotted.
 
PTA is also working on a system by which public will be able to identify and report these kind of sites to PTA

Some researches have found that a large amount of traffic to these sites come from Pakistan, Iran and some other Muslim countries which is a shame for them all. But we can tell you that they all are adult websites and few of them are ranked in top 100 Alexa list for Pakistani most visited websites. Local adult websites are also included.

ISPs are given orders to implemented. Most of the ISPs, including PTCL, have already blocked these websites, while others are making the necessary preparations for the blockade.PTA is also planning to devise a way for general users to report adult websites to authority. After through review authority will keep adding such reported websites/URLs to the black list.

I called it a great achievement that come into action by the endevours of group members especially our Legal Advisor & Founder, Mr. Fahad Ahmad Siddiqi

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Internet Usage in Pakistan [Infographic]

Today we got our hands on following infographic that details various vectors of internet usage in Pakistan. Based upon survey results, YouGov – a firm that provides statistical data for multiple regions – recently came up with an infographic on usage of Internet in Pakistan and India.
We won’t keep you waiting for long, but here are some key findings for Pakistan before you head over to graph:

• Average cost for internet in Pakistan is: Rs. 1024.46
• 53 % think that internet cost on Mobile phone is expensive
• 69 % of internet users in Pakistan have full time jobs
• 99 % of internet population from Pakistan visit English language websites

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