India tops list of countries that curbed citizens web access in 2020
Sci-Tech
An AFP file image of protest against internet shutdown.
India accounted for nearly three-quarter of the $4 billion lost worldwide due to internet shutdowns, according to the Global Cost of Internet Shutdowns report released by Top10VPN.
With 8,927 hours of blacked out and restricted internet access, India topped the list of 21 countries that curbed the citizens web access in 2020 and lost $2.8 billion.
The report estimated 1,655 hours of internet blackouts and 7,272 hours of throttled bandwidth in one year. “As in previous years, India continued to restrict internet access more than any other country – over 75 times in 2020, read the report. The majority of these short blackouts were highly-targeted, affecting groups of villages or individual city districts and so were not included in this report, which focuses on larger region-wide shutdowns.
FPCCI will continue playing key role in highlighting Kashmir issue
National
January 8, 2021
LAHORE: Innocent and resilient Kashmiri brethren have spent 520 days under lockdown in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
FPCCI will continue playing a key role in bringing the Kashmir issue to international fora with the help of global business fraternity, Raja Muhammad Anwar, vice president, Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) said.
Spokesperson says situation in Washington DC being monitored; hopes transfer of power issue will be resolved soon
Foreign Office Spokesman Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri. PHOTO: APP/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan on Thursday congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden after US Congress certified his victory and hoped the transfer of power would be smooth amid ongoing protests in Capitol.
“We are closely following the developments in Washington DC. We are hopeful that the situation will soon normalise and would not in any way impact the ongoing transition process,” Foreign Office spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri told his weekly news briefing.
“We also wish to congratulate President-elect Joe Biden on the certification of his win by US Congress,” he added.
Pakistan presents dossier to int l community on India s involvement in terrorism
Published On 07 January,2021 05:23 pm
He said India continues to impede access of Security Council s mandated UN Military Observer Group
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez Chaudhri said that Pakistan presented a dossier to the international community comprising solid and irrefutable evidence regarding Indian involvement in abetting terrorism in Pakistan. He, however, said that India should keep it in mind that law enforcement agencies of Pakistan are fully vigilant to foil Indian designs.
Answering a question on India s joining UN Security Council as non-permanent member, the Spokesperson said it is ironic that India is able to sit on a UN body, whose resolutions on Jammu and Kashmir have persistently and defiantly been flouted by the New Delhi for over 70 years.
By Sajjad Shaukat Pak VT
Article 55 & 56 of the Geneva Convention IV state that the occupying power must ensure sufficient hygiene and public health standards as well as the provision of food and medical care to the population under occupation.
Since August 5, 2019 when Indian Parliament revoked articles 35A and 370 of the Constitution, which gave a special status to the disputed territory of the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK), Indian fanatic Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government led by extremist ruling party BJP took various moves to turn Muslim majority into minority there.
In this regard, deployment of more than 900,000 military troops in the IIOJK, who have martyred thousands of the Kashmiris, including women and children through brutal tactics-fake encounters closure of mosques, shortage of foods, medicines for the patients and coronavirus-affected persons, the use of pellet guns and phosphorus bombs show worst form of India’s state terr