The driving force behind this decision? The Muhammad cartoons. From Dawn.com: "Body set up to block websites"
ISLAMABAD, Sept 2: The government on Saturday set up a committee to streamline mechanism for screening and blocking websites offering objectionable contents. "This is the first-ever focused attempt by the government to block offensive websites, warranted because of growing concern among people about indecent content," a senior government official said.
Constituted by the Ministry of Information Technology, its Secretary Farrukh Qayyum would preside over the body to examine contents of websites reported or found to be offensive or containing anti-state material.
Representatives of ministries of interior, cabinet, information and broadcasting and security agencies would be part of the body that would operate within the parametres set out in the Amended Telecom Act 2006.
It would evaluate and examine web material besides entertaining public requests for blocking websites and decide cases on merit and advise the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to take appropriate action.
The decision to constitute the committee to oversee obnoxious websites had been taken following a growing number of public grievances regarding objectionable and hateful material being displayed at various websites.
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The need for blocking offensive and objectionable websites was needed when blasphemous caricature of Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace be upon him) were published by European newspapers in March and later the sacrilegious depictions were made available on various websites.
In April last, on identical petitions of Dr Mohammad Imran Uppal and Maulvi Iqbal Haider seeking complete blockage of blasphemous cartoons and their depictions on websites, the Supreme Court had ordered to block 12 websites carrying sacrilegious caricatures of the Holy Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (Peace be upon him) on the Internet.
And Government knows best.
We must make sure this never happens in the free world. CAIR is doing all it can to bring this to our shores.
If they can block offensive websites we should be able to block offensive religions.
Paamaha dekha, Naseem
We will miss you. I hope you find the light.
Mohammed's protection racket continues...
In more ways than one!
Offensive website? These are Muslims in London:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ery38_v5SqA
You can bet your bottom dollar that wherever Muslims have control, they will block any 'ofensive' website. It's in their nature. For 'offensive' website, read 'truthful' website in many cases. They can't stand the truth. The truth is light. If Islam is exposed to too much light, it will be shown up for the flawed 'religion' it is.
And among the first such sites they'll block is this one. Best not to let the laity get hold of this sort of information.
Prophet Geoff
Looks like "Naseem" will have noone to talk to but her fellow Pakis. A fitting punishment.
Hahaha! I just realized that by blocking JW, Pakistan will actually be doing us a favor by preventing the Paki Trolls from logging on and plaguing us with their rants and mindless bon mots! Thanks Pakistan!
Can't have the people thinking too much, can we? If they really think, the idea of muhammad being the "perfect man" sounds implausible....
Noone is not a word..noon is a word.
What you are searching for Bohemond is "no one".
Two words, not one.
A possibly good idea:
Could the site be translated into Urdu or the like and posted as a separate site? Without comments, of course, so that no trolls can interfere with things. I understand of course that translators cost money: there is always the cheap and occasionally useful expedient of Babelfish.
Prophet Geoff
The first time one of the Naseem posters puts something up after this blocking goes into effect we'll have the proof Naseem has been a sham all along.
Let's pay attention to the reports on when it actually goes into effect, then watch for Naseem. For a long time I've suspected she's more like an 'it'. Naseem posts all hours of her local day & night, sometimes responding within minutes to posts and at the hours of 2, 3 and 4 am. If she's one person and has the responsibilities and life she claims to have she's super-human. Either that or she is Legion. ( maybe even in the biblical sense of the name as well. Ha Ha )
Nariz, it wasn't a typo and I do know English.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=noone
1 result for: noone
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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.0.1) - Cite This Source new!
no one
no person; not anyone; nobody: No one is home.
Also, no-one.
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[Origin: 1595–1605]
However I realize that there are some differences between British English and American English, and even Texican English!
Also don't be surprised if "Naseem" comes up with some semi-plausible excuse as to why she can still log onto JW even if the Paki gov't blocks it. Alternately, look for another poster to appear who sounds exactly like "Naseem" with a different name. But if "she" is gone, I won't shed tear one to see "her" go.
You mean this is the end of the Naseem era? No more wild slutty womens, no more Amriki will Islamize, no more we should all become Ahmadiya, none?
Just hope her son is forced to marry his cousin, and her daughter marries a Sikh, converts to Sikhism, and bolts from Pakistan altogether. Just my way of wishing her eternal bliss ;->