Zardari blocks Geo, ARY, Royal TV Stations - shuts down websites

[Pak123]

Ary news channel is working fine now while geo is still blocked !

 

[Future Weapon]

zardari a new face of Musharraf... pak politician prefer to shut media mouth rather than face the reality. however what's new in this news. it happen in every country where is dictatorship.

 

[no_koadsheding_plz]

can anyone in india tell me if u can access this site ?

http://www.thenews.com.pk/


plz do tel us....
i cant access it despite of using more then a dozen proxies... i think its only not blocked but its servers are taken away ..consificated or sthng like this,,,,,?

 

[FreekiN]

can anyone in india tell me if u can access this site ?

http://www.thenews.com.pk/


plz do tel us....
i cant access it despite of using more then a dozen proxies... i think its only not blocked but its servers are taken away ..consificated or sthng like this,,,,,?

It's not working in the US.

Looks like it got shut down.

 

[Luftwaffe]

Guys I've found way to pass through blockage.

Go to Anonymouse.org
type in thenews.com.pk

Whatever it says do it and you'll be ported to the website enjoy!

 

[Solomon2]

thenews.com.pk - Security Verification asked me for a "security verification"? What is going on?

 

[Fireurimagination]

can anyone in india tell me if u can access this site ?

www.thenews.com.pk - Security Verification


plz do tel us....
i cant access it despite of using more then a dozen proxies... i think its only not blocked but its servers are taken away ..consificated or sthng like this,,,,,?

Yup it's working fine here at my place (India) with that checking security connection and re-direct though

 

[Luftwaffe]

Solomon2..It asked me as well just click it everytime you click a link it'll ask you, you'll be able to surf up on that website.

 

[Solomon2]

What does that "security verification" do, exactly? Install a bug on my computer?

 

[desiman]

Dont blame Democracy, blame the leaders. Its not the system but the people in it.

 

[Luftwaffe]

Doesn't Install anything I was thinking the same, I just clicked it and than it transported me to the right website. (I've a very strong anti-virus/anti-spyware Installed on my systems.)

 

[QADRI]

KARACHI: The websites of Pakistan’s leading channel Geo News and newspaper ‘The News’ Wednesday survived a serious DDos attack while efforts are still on to neutralize the threat.

The dedicated IT team of Jang Group of Companies once again frustrated the saboteurs who tried to slow down websites www.geo.tv - Security Verification and www.thenews.com.pk - Security Verification by repeatedly sending multiple opening requests using thousands of computers. This attack is called Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS).

The websites of Geo and The News faced similar attack in former president Pervez Musharraf’s regime when he declared emergency in the country and banned Geo News.

People have been turning to the websites of Geo News, The News and Jang for latest updates after the blocking of Geo News transmission on cable across Sindh province including Karachi.

 

[fatman17]

It's 'Cable' who did it

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Adiah Afraz

No matter what you say, I kind of feel sorry for my government. And before you start hurling your shoes at me, and I start blaming Geo TV in turn, please just look at these people.

Our president doesn't know what a flood is and our information minister has shoe blindness. The president's spokespersons have never seen a newspaper and the newspapers have never seen the president's spokespersons. The information ministry can't control PEMRA, PEMRA can't control TV channels, the TV channels can't control Fauzia Wahab and Fauzia Wahab can't control Kashif Abbasi. Conspiracies abound and hidden hands thrive. Shoe-hurlers are being planted, mobs are being installed, plots are being hatched, and to top it all, nobody ever tells anything to Ms Ispahani. She in turn ends up telling nothing to the president who in turn ends up telling nothing to Cameron. What a fine mess indeed.

And among all this hullabaloo, a strange breed of conspirators has recently emerged out of nowhere. They are real operators (pun intended), these mischief-makers. They respond to the first name of Cable and are beholders of some mysterious internal conflicts. So these cable-operators, full of their internal conflicts, got up one fine day and decided that they hated Geo TV. In fact their internal conflicts hated Geo TV more than they hated it themselves. So much so, that to quote the pious 'Dr' Awan, "The cable-operators closed Geo transmissions because of their internal conflicts." Just imagine!

Have you ever wondered why all this happened especially when the poor government has nothing to do with any of it? Let me tell you a story: a famous man once said, and I quote, "Democracy is the best revenge".

The common man asked, and I quote, "Revenge from whom, my dear?"

Since the script hurriedly written for the famous man did not provide an answer to this question, the famous man turned to Daddy for help. Daddy, who wasn't sure himself primarily because he wasn't paying attention, turned to an aide for an answer. Incidentally, Daddy's spellings are not so good. He confused his aide with aid, rhymed it with trade and has been looking for both ever since.

In this quest he went from shore to shore, from hotel to hotel, from jet to jet, from limousine to limousine, all the while dragging his poor kids along and some hundreds of slaves following his footsteps. Back home the common man just waited and speculated. When he got tired of both, he turned on his TV and entertained himself.

At this point it is pertinent to tell you something about this common man. Actually these common man type of people are not very bright. They don't understand confusion, and generally want clear-cut answers to their clear-cut questions. For example, if they have a question about a high-profile assassination, they would want to know who is responsible. They won't really care for 'I know but I won't tell' kind of information. Neither would they understand allusions and innuendos. They would ask silly questions like, "What do you mean by 'they', sir?" Or "what do you mean by 'them', sir."

So the evil geniuses called the TV channels decided to capitalise on the stupidity of the common man's questions, and tried to offer some simple answers to the simple questions simply put in simple language. And this is probably what the cable-operators did not like. Or rather, this is probably what the cable-operators' internal conflicts did not like. They took their revenge from the TV channels, Geo included, and the poor government ended up taking all the blame.

So do you blame me if I feel sorry for my government? What? You do blame me that I feel sorry for my government? Gee, relax people. This is all a big conspiracy by the hidden hands and non-partisan elements among the non-state actors of anti-democratic forces bent upon destabilising the spirit of reconciliation and democracy that nobody ever told me about. But now that you have brought it to my notice…



The writer is a freelance contributor. Email: adiahafraz@gmail.com

 

[MZUBAIR]

We need to getrid of Zardari n stuff.....he is pissing on Bibi vision

 

[Meengla]

Soo...it looks like Jiyalas--who are known for disorganized conduct and even riotous actions even in PPP rallies with BB present--got carried away and they should be punished. But to blame the federal govt. and indeed the whole concept of democracy shows a lack of maturity, if not outright malice, on the part of some bloggers.
NF Paracha took part in the protest against the actions of the Jiyalas over the GEO 'ban by Zardari'. This is what he says to balance out. Pakistan's haramkhor Jang group gave voice to the terrorists during Lal Masjid incident--that irresponsible behavior led to so many new recruits for the so-called Jihadis and hence much more violence in Pakistan than it was before Musharraf launched the operation against Lal Masjid.
How about some accounting for that? How about someone asking Jang Group and GEO to account for the blood of hundreds or thousands of innocent Pakistanis because of their destablizing reporting?
Jiyalas' intolerance cannot be excused and they must be punished. However, we need to understand the damaging role of some aspects of Pakistan's media, led by the Jang Group.


The Dawn Blog Blog Archive Raging bull

Looking at media people gathered at the Karachi Press Club and rightfully protesting against the attacks a large media group has been facing by those incensed by its coverage of Zardari’s trip was a heartening sight. I too was part of that protest rally.

The attacks were a highly undemocratic act and supposedly coming from members and supporters of the country’s largest political party made it even worse. However, if everything about this condemnable act was undemocratic, one must also ask exactly how democratic and wise were the following acts that the same media group has been embroiled in?

How wise and democratic was the role of one of its religious talk-show hosts who blatantly instigated violence against a minority sect in Lahore in 2008?

How wise and democratic is the fact that one of its many anchors was accused by the son of a slain former ISI man who was kidnapped by a group of extremists and allegedly killed on the suggestion of the anchor? The anchor has pleaded that he was not involved and the voice on a taped conversation between an extremist and him was not his. How far has the channel gone to fully investigate the issue – even though personally, I am a fan of his and would be most happy if he proves his innocence once and for all.

How wise and democratic was the way one of its former talk-show hosts – with an obsessive habit of making outlandish predictions about the downfall of the current government – ridiculed the Sindhi folk culture on the occasion of the Sindh government’s ‘Sindhi cap day’ early last year?

The list can go on. I am part of the media myself, but refuse to toe the line many of my contemporaries at the protest rally were toeing. But what was this line?

Briefly put it goes something like this: Sensationalising (on air) an event that sees a man throwing a shoe at the president is freedom of expression; but getting the same treatment from those incensed by the nature of reporting that the event got on your channel is an attack on this freedom?

Same way, suggesting that the president’s tour of Britain amounted to him ignoring the floods but forgetting about the floods yourself at the wake of the shoe-throwing incident was OK? The channel did begin to obsess about the ‘issue’ like an excited group of high school pranksters. ‘What floods, where? Get me that shoe story, now!’

The above are just questions that I aired during my meeting with some contemporaries of mine at the rally.

I fully appreciate that some of them are taking their status of being the society’s watchdogs very seriously. But many of them know as much as I do, that within our community of crusading, pen-pushing do-gooders can be found a number of characters who are as lecherous, fraudulent and arrogant as those individuals each one of us loves to bring down for being corrupt and deceiving.

What’s more, recently the local electronic media has grown another edgy tentacle. That of constant self glorification, self-righteousness and peachiness, all queerly entangled with a huge persecution complex.

Exactly when or who gave us (the media), the mandate (and the audacity) to become judge, jury and executioners?