There is no confirmation yet why the website may be inaccessible in the country but Express Tribune readers on Facebook have commented that the website is down in multiple cities of Pakistan, including Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar. The website is inaccessible on various internet service providers (ISPs) including PTCL, Wateen and WiTribe.
In the past, various news sites have been blocked in Pakistan including the Rolling Stone and the Toronto Sun. Regional newspapers from Pakistan have also been blocked online by the governemnt in the past.
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not accessible in karachi through ptcl
not accessible is karachi through ptcl
Lifehacker,Gizmodo and TheVerge are also blocked since Saturday morning. All technology based websites.
@M: that site, and several others that use the same backend service, have been inaccessible on Pakistan's largest ISP for three days now. That doesn't sound like a minor glitch.
The fact that there's no one to contact to figure out where the problem lies (is it just a technical glitch, or a PTA-ordained block?) makes it alarming.
What's the fuss about it. There would have been a technical issue
ET, please come up with real NEWS. I know we love to discuss conspiracies
Please avoid false call, its working here in Islamabad.
Thanks you told me now i will make sure that i access it using a proxy and see what the article whether 'blasphemous' or 'anti-state', and make sure that i tell every one around me and conjure their interest until the phenomenon becomes viral, and help pta become succesful in making something popular, which originally it had intended to stop people from seeing.
Why does our Government ban every single website? Though the website is working for me. Karachi. PTCL.
@ET: the guardian's url is http://guardian.co.uk/ not that mentioned above.. :P