Pakistan - Government wants to create national Internet filtering system

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders wrote today to Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani, the information technology minister and the head of the National ICT Research and Development Fund, which is attached to the ministry, to voice its opposition to a proposed national Internet filtering and blocking system. According to the Daily Times, several international companies have already responded to the Fund's 2 February invitation to submit bids for the creation of the system, which is expected to cost 10 (...)

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