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Fifteen-year-old works with friends to identify porn sites still accessible in Pakistan.
In a bid to aid the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in its ongoing efforts to block online porn in Pakistan, fifteen-year-old Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah has compiled and sent forward a list of 780,000 adult websites which he thinks should be blocked in Pakistan.
Speaking to ProPakistani, Abdullah said that he sent this list to the PTA following a letter sent to him by Director General, Law and Regulations, which stated:
“If there is any specific website that you wish to bring into the knowledge of PTA, it is requested that PTA may be informed of the same accordingly for further necessary action at our end.”
The teenager had previously written letters to the PTA, Ministry of Information Technology and Chief Justice of Pakistan to get adult websites blocked in Pakistan.
Without revealing the specific selection process for the adult sites added to the list, Abdullah told ProPakistani that he was aided by his friends whose names he wished not to share.
In an ongoing clampdown on the internet, the judiciary and PTA have taken action against porn websites by blocking or banning access to over 13,000 sites in the country.
Additionally, a government department has recently called for proposals for the development, deployment and operation of a national level URL Filtering and Blocking System.
The ad had been placed in local papers by National ICT R&D Fund, a division of the Ministry of Information Technology, on February 22, 2012. The proposal request states that each box of the system “should be able to handle a block list of up to 50 million URLs with a processing delay of not more than 1 millisecond.”
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Oh, I forgot. If we give the kid time off for coffee breaks, eating, sleeping and attending school it would have taken him about 21 man years to compile the list. He must be a miracle worker. He started many years before he was even born.
My colleague Ghumman is in shock after this news!!!!!
GREAT WORK ABDULLAH you inspired me now i will also do the same thing
We are with this boy.... but PTA also should made effort to stop people who open these sites by changing there proxies
What an idiot kid!!!
Now all the personnel at PTA Authorities will be checking every one of 780,000 sites to "see themselves" that if these sites are really worth blocking...
@Akber: Maybe now your left hand can finally get some relaxation.
I hate this fifteen year old boy. What kind of strange puberty must he be going through?
good step; block these sites they have no beneficial purpose
15 yo. 780,000 sites. puberty hit him too hard!
HAHAHAHAHAH WHAT A LOSER.
I agree with you mr ethic.
@Awais Khan:
It is illegal for a person of any age to enter such a site, as far as Pakistan is concerned. What other countries' laws says does not matter as this ban would be enforceable in Pakistan only.
Assuming the it took the boy two minutes to check out each site, it took him 1,560,000 minutes. That means he took 26,000 hours to come up with all the site info. Assuming he diligently worked 12 hours a day doing this great service, it would have taken him 2167 days or six whole years to complete his thankless job. So, he must have started this job when he was nine!!
this guy can be called Hafiz?
No one answers my question. Oh well I knew it all along. Liberals are just shallow and take their ideas from the West
He has ruined my life! What am I do to now? They have removed my only source of 'happiness'... My life is ruined loll
great work kid
People! he is not even of the Legal age to do this , I mean he surely had to visit these sites in order to check them, that whether or not do they exist, and every site says that you must not visit and leave immediately if you are below 18 Years of age,so technically the kiddo has already committed an illegal act. Guilty as charged.
he prepared this list of 780,000 adult websites with help of friends having expertise in computers. He wished not to disclose their names.
@Tony C.: They do bring in a lot of money. In regard to how they're treated tax-wise, it falls under the same rules as any other credit purchase.
Another "Maya Khan" you got to be kidding me. When would these people learn that they don't have the right to tell people what to do. The democratic governments job is to follow what the people want not dictate us what to do. The chain of command works the other way round and some body has to put some sense back into the retarded bureaucracy of Pakistan who are turning this country into a police state and than we all cry that our talent keep moving away from Pakistan to countries with more freedom.
Somebody should take a lesson from history and see how internet is designed.
Waste of time and resources as there are always ways to get around these barriers.
Aren't there more pressing and more important issues to solve, like poverty and illiteracy.
Very well done you man! we need young people like you. All the best.
780,000 sites...let us do some time management... 780,000 seconds equal 13,000 minutes 13.000 minutes equal 216.66 hours If he surfs 8 hours every day 216.66/8= 27.08 days Which city in Pakistan has no load shedding less than 8 hours in 27 days? Failing grade for this story..
It is necessary that we must put your hand in garbage if we want to clean it as we daily did in toilet . my son is 12 years if he was able to do this job I would be proud of him .Great job son kept it up .
I bet those 780,000 websites asked for credit card verification and to be over 18. No wonder he is angry.
@Awais Khan: He's a youngster, he needs time.
Had Osama bin laden been alive, he would have punished this kid!
@Khadim Hussain wrote: Very wise step ! Please expdedite save our youth and muslim ummah from Harams.
Please expedite, save our youth and muslim ummah from harums .. is a more accurate objective.
Send me the links...I'll check them for you! :)
the kid must seriously be mentaly sick or must be angry for bieng impotent or sumthing
Great reward for you from God,its just like cleaning each and every street in Pakistan,shahbaash.
Nice move by little boy, i hope this will continue as no regulations stay more than what it should be, God Bless Pakistan.
Ah... Wikileaks, we need you now :-)
He should visit a prn convention (yes! its true! they are held annually in the US) to meet all the porn stars in person. Peraps he may change his mind. ;-)
Wow, good job. I gotta admire the guy.
Is there any way we can get a hold of this list?
child labor - period
@osama athar: yes you are correct say
@Abdullah: LOL and that's better than the condition and treatment of women in Pakistan how?
I can see too many frustrated people around. Their nights will be color less now!
we will still find some, they say "where there is a will there is a way"
is very funny to see people complaining the fact that the boy done a wrong thing regardless of seeing that at least someone came in front and those who cant see, it also mentions in the article that "aided by his friends whose names he wished not to share.". and those could be adults. or maybe its a some kind of game plan to put that 15 year old face in front picture..nonetheless....step will make a difference...
this teenager should be sent to jail
the main problem of our country is that they focus on small issues rather than bigger issues like poverty and corruption. the political figures by themselves are characterless and by banning these websites they are proving that they are the most Islamic persons on this planet.
after reading all the comments, looks like,, there are so many frustrated people around...hmmm this could be done earlier, ... at least these people could be saved..!
Wish he and his friends had browsed 78,000 pages of wikipedia. Might have learnt somethings:)
@XYZ:
destroying social fabric??? how
what a country, and what a teenager.
True Ghazi, Mard-e-Momin zindabad.
Glad I dont live in Pakistan.
You can view everything using opera browser :) at the same time, naughty boy :p
Very wise step ! Please expdedite save our youth and muslim ummah from Harams.
He has seen 780000 websites himself and wants to get rid of the bad stuff! hahaha! How munafiq! Rightly said if he would have concentrated that much towards his studies he would have received Nobel Prize!
so access to images of naked women is the most pressing issue we have mr ghazi ?
So this 15 year old kid has been surfing these 780,000 adult websites instead of going to a school?. Naughty boy..................
He is probably going to get Sitaara-e-Jurrat for rendering his commendable services.
this calls for public lynching
I wonder how muscular his left arm is (if you know what I mean)
Pakistan: A place where we appreciate a 15-year old for compiling a list of 780,000 adult websites but shove crap in a Test series-winning captain's face. Hahahahahaha! facepalm
Good job - credit where its due
Haters gonna hate.
@Abdullah: Yeah, we should be treating them like inferior baby machines, right?
Kid can make good money by providing links to this on a website that he creates... He'll get lots of referral money by CPC... Actually he can have two websites... "Banned list - to be accessed from outside Pakistan" and an "Accessible from Pakistan list", which will include those websites he didn't give to PTA.
i have never seen as incompetent people as in Pak... all you need to do is search for "adult websites directory" and scrap all the websites from these directories...and put in the filter list...
@Pakistani Hindu: you indian boy first you see urz country ,america has come in yourz count ryLOL
Hey can you please send me that list too, before PTA bans it :P
If PTA has to comply then it is very good step towards Islamic Jamorya e Pakistan..
If he had spent half as much as time on studying physics, we would have won another Nobel prize.
DG Law and Regulation should be suspended and sent to Jail to forcing under age person to work and that also an illegal work.
Shame on him
He should be sent to Jail
oh and thanks alot!
I am happy to see Ghazi Muhammad Abdullah doing such important work. May he be blessed.
okay, so it is clear this teenage boy is permitted by his parents to access the internet without supervision....so, the family feels they dont have any responsibility for his actions....i am doubly surprised that this boy can access adult sites, which are bound by legal requirements of various countries to ensure access only by adults....it is horrifying that the boy is in fact proud of a wrong act, and hiding behind the fact that he is "policemanning for the PTA"....this entire exercise can be undertaken by an adult and this child should not waste his time on illegal/immoral activities, while hiding behind the act of listing adult sites.
may be awarded with oscar
sigh I myself am forwarding a list to a famous assassination firm... the list contains a single name. (guess who)
o bhae mujhe be email krdo list .... id hai tharkino1@hotestmail.com! :P
Aweful! the delligent student must have drained up his mojo checking out each of these sites! irony in the face of fanaticism!
Guess he didn't have a separate room!
Fifteen year old and 780,000 websites . LOL
the person should already have downloaded the stuff for himself to satisfy. Lol
Great effort by a teenage boy to help the concerned authorities.. but for a taste of humour, this teenager broke the law as below age 18 or in some cases below age 21 are not allowed to enter adult website!!!
I would'nt be surprised if they ban ALL 780,000 of them, and one of the website in them is ebay.com. Everybody suffer because of a 15 year old.
Sounds like a fun job!
Well done boy,... and keep it up...!!! Pakistan needs young people like you.
No life whatsoever.