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Excerpt: Internet in border areas banned By Munawar Hasan LAHORE—Pakistan has banned internet access in certain areas including border belt with neighbouring India as a security measure in the wake of war threats emanating from India, it is reliably learnt here on Thursday. As a result of unannounced ban on internet access, subscribers of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have not been able to connect the ISPs through telephone lines. [...] --- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 20:14:34 -0500 (EST) From: ackme <altwar@pobox.com> To: declan@well.com Subject: Pakistan bans internet in border areas near India At the same time, the story states that "...India already shut down local internet access in the Kashmir [area]..." Maybe war has a new "first casualty"? http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/today/main/top12.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------