Pakistan government blocks blogs with cartoons of Muhammad [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Subject: BBC E-mail: Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:53:13 +0000
From: J . D . Abolins <jabolins () meydaonline com>
To: declan () well com

J.D. Abolins saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you
should see it.

** Message **
FYI. The Pakistani telecom block of blogs is also wide. For example. all 
Blogspt blogs were blocked because one of the targetted blogs is hosted 
there.

** Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons **
Pakistan telecom authorities  block several websites inviting people to 
draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/south_asia/4771846.stm >

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Pakistan telecom authorities have blocked several websites inviting 
people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it has emerged.

Instructions were issued to internet service providers across Pakistan 
on 27 February to block about a dozen websites of various origins.

The ban comes amid protests in several Muslim countries against the 
cartoons, first published in Denmark last year.

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