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Porn gets the better of Pakistan
February 24, 2005
Islamabad - Pakistan's Ministry of Information Technology and
Telecommunications has said that it has accepted defeat in its "battle" against
pornographic material available on the Internet.
According to The News, the ministry has in its missive to the country's four
provinces - Punjab, Sindh, Balochistan and North West Frontier Province - asked
them to implement their own laws to counter pornography on the Internet as the
Federal Government could not do much by taking recourse to "technological
safeguards" against it.
Although the federal government had directed the Pakistan Telecommunications
Company Limited (PTCL) to "block access to pornographic and blasphemous
websites at the Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) nodes", way back in 2003, the
idea it is believed could not take a real start and the Ministry finally
abandoned the project after blocking some 80,000 x-rated websites.
Officials further added that since new sites are created each day and exisiting
sites give links on new pages to other sites, that it is not possible to block
all the sites and the methods for blocking them are also not foolproof.
"We are trying to block them technologically by using content filters at the
Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) but we know it's not a foolproof system," the
paper quoted Khalid Saeed, Secretary of the Ministry of Information Technology
and Telecommunications as saying.
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