Pakistan Government considering generating internet search engine

[Safriz]

Government is seriously considering a proposal to generate its own internet search engine based on China model to stop disseminating of any anti-Islamic video or materials in future however no one in the Ministry of Information and Technology was willing to officially confirm this.

Sources in the Ministry of Information and Technology said that China gave limited access to google.com. It has its own indigenous search engine 'Baidu'. This helps China to block the dissemination of such material which is against its national interest. According to the China Digital Times, Baidu has a long history of being the most proactive and restrictive online censor in the search arena. Documents leaked in April 2009 from an employee in Baidu's internal monitoring and censorship department show a long list of blocked websites and censored topics on Baidu search.

People in Pakistan can still view the anti-Islam video by using alternate routes to YouTube which has been blocked by Government of Pakistan over displaying the anti-Islam video. Sources in Ministry of Information and Technology acknowledged that the popular video-sharing website YouTube would not be unblocked anytime soon but still there were various links which opened YouTube website. The site has been blocked in other countries including Afghanistan and Bangladesh. The website was blocked some five weeks back over displaying anti-Islam video. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Ministry of Information and Technology officials were determined not to unblock YouTube unless Google decides to take the anti-Islam video offline - internationally or at least for Pakistan - since the decision was covered by a court order.

Sources in Ministry said it was not possible to completely ban YouTube site for internet servers in Pakistan, but denial of direct access to the website reduced the number of users in Pakistan. YouTube, owned by IT giant Google, had been blocked in Pakistan after the release of an anti-Islam film's trailer on the site. Despite requests by the Pakistani government and concerned authorities to block the video or pull it down, Google did not comply and the video-sharing site has been blocked for almost three weeks now in Pakistan. However, Google had blocked the video in Malaysia, Indonesia, Libya, Egypt and India.

It has been said reportedly that procedures were initiated to get the video blocked in Pakistan, but YouTube did not respond as Pakistan has no legal control over the company. The MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) - an agreement between two countries for gathering, exchanging and enforcing public and criminal laws - was an obstacle because Pakistan has not signed MLAT with USA. Although, USA does not have MLAT with Libya, Indonesia or Singapore yet it blocked the video due to US government pressure or on-ground offices in those states.

It has been said that countries where Google has its physical presence or has infrastructure (datacentres) in place were in a better position to get the video blocked. An IT Ministry official said the Prime Minister would not order the restoration of YouTube until the anti-Islam video was blocked in Pakistan as well.

Blocking anti-Islamic materials: government considering generating internet search engine | Business Recorder

 

[Skull and Bones]

Why not use Baidu?

 

[SHAMK9]

they should stick to, um i dont know.......handling the country and taking it to right direction!!!!!

 

[lightoftruth]

atleast i give them credit to set the prioties straight.

 

[v9s]

Probably because you can't get all that explosive Islamic shizz in it.

Please elaborate on what you mean by this.

 

[American Pakistani]

Why not use "PakSearch" a privately made Pakistani search engine.

 

[hunter_hunted]

Probably because you can't get all that explosive Islamic shizz in it.

U really need an infraction han???? ELMO my Dear ELMO where are U

 

[Hashshāshīn]

******* bullshit, why don't they focus on real issues? Govt has messed up the country, I say execute all officials like Iran did. Sick of these corrupt bastards.

 

[American Pakistani]

U really need an infraction han???? ELMO my Dear ELMO where are U

I don't think he qualify for infraction cuz infraction is just for Pakistanis not the eastern neighbour, i'm saying this cuz in another thread a bunch of indians were cursing & insulting my country & when i reply them in same way i get "warning" rightaway even when i had deleted insulting comments. Also few days ago a Pakistani member(name starts from S & was from Karachi) got banned cuz he was starting threads about india & exposing reality but i see indians starting troll threads every 2 hour sometime on internal Pakistani matters somtimes Kashmir related but they still roam happily.


@ Topic it is so funny & stupid if GoP will ask China for every small things, can't d anyting on its own? They can ask Pakistani experts too to do this small job.

 

[untitled]

Probably because you can't get all that explosive Islamic....

I don't know about other search engines but you can use google for that too and I have feeling you use Google for just that

 

[Don Jaguar]

@ Topic it is so funny & stupid if GoP will ask China for every small things, can't d anyting on its own? They can ask Pakistani experts too to do this small job.

Dude you have no idea what you are talking about.

If the search engine cannot match google then it is failed, very few people will use it.

And microsoft's 100 million dollar investment and years of research was failed when they tried to match google.

Now think again what you are saying.

 

[Icarus]

That kind of stuff works in China where the people are more positive towards following laws. In Pakistan where everyone considers it their God-given responsibility to break all possible laws, restricting net access will only make another law for people to break.

 

[acetophenol]

How about a 50:50 Joint Venture with China to make a cost effective Search engine named Joint Search-17(JS 17),which can be exported to other nations?

Dude you have no idea what you are talking about.

If the search engine cannot match google then it is failed, very few people will use it.

And microsoft's 100 million dollar investment and years of research was failed when they tried to match google.

Now think again what you are saying.

I think the plan may be to block google in future.

 

[Peregrine]

Been waiting for this to happen.

 

[Don Jaguar]

How about a 50:50 Joint Venture with China to make a cost effective Search engine named Joint Search-17(JS 17),which can be exported to other nations?

JS-17.

Nice name brother.

I think the plan may be to block google in future.

This will be a great injustice with Pakistani people.