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Google newly published 2016 Women’s day doodle features Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan

Just recently Google have published a new doodle on occasion of Women’s Day. If you have no idea about whats a doodle, on special occasions the world’s search giant Google turns it logo to an image or video, which depicts the occasion inside the Google’s Logo. As the women’s day is observed and celebrated around the world on 8th of March, Google made a video and put it on place of Google Logo, officially making it a Google Doodle. In the videos women around the world are expressing what they want to achieve. 2016’s Google Women’s day Doodle also features the Malala Yousafzai from Pakistan. She is sharing her dream of seeing every girl around the world in school and […]

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More than 53000 People were Simultaneously online to watch PSL official Video Stream at Youtube today

Today’s Pakistan Super League (PSL) match was an important one was tournament is now advancing towards the next, knockout stages. So interest of people is increasing. This notion was evident at official video stream of PSL at youtube which is setup by PCB (Pakistan Cricket Board). At this stream previously on peak moments at most few thousands over 20 thousand were seen online. However, today over whooping 53000 plus people were seen online simultaneously. This number equals to a very big capacity cricket houseful with the crowd watching the match. Plus, this is just one stream there were many other online streams available online, as well as on youtube itself. Plus the stream we are talking here is only accessible […]

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YouTube Ban Finally Officially Removed In Pakistan

From couple of months it seem so, that every ISP had deliberately made the https version of YouTube available to the masses. However, there was an official ban on the website. Also during that period PTA’s (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) policy also looked lenient towards the ISPs which were allowing some traffic to YouTube. So that meant government is cooking something and something is going to be decided between the video sharing giant and government of Pakistan. Finally, just not more than couple of days ago YouTube.com launched its local .pk version in Pakistan. Which later cooperated government of Pakistan and block an objectionable video against Islam on government’s request. Following that PTA requested Supreme Court of Pakistan to order removal […]

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YouTube to officially Open in Pakistan Very Soon

YouTube have now been banned for more than three and half years officially in Pakistan. However, from last couple of months it is accessible via https on all ISPs and PTCL was first to make it available on http as well. An important development happened this month when YouTube.com launched a localized version for Pakistan. Now the news is that PTA (Pakistan Telecommunications Authority) have appealed Supreme Court to remove ban on YouTube in Pakistan. According to PTA, after the launch of local version of YouTube in Pakistan, it is possible for authorities to request Google and get blocked any video which is not suitable for local users. Or any video which can cause chaos in the country. So on […]

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Hashtag #blackout trends Number One on twitter in Pakistan after countrywide power breakdown

Currently the power in out in whole Pakistan from hours after the multiple power stations of country tripped. Due to furnace oil shortage, the power stations were making the way less electricity, which overloaded the system and now the whole Pakistan is facing blackout. As soon as the country gone into blackout, the people gone furious and everyone is expressing their views about the failure of current government on twitter and other social media forums online. Same is reason that the hashtag Blackout (#blackout) is trending number one on twitter right now in Pakistan. Thousands of tweets coming every few minutes. If same pace is kept up, it is not far that we will see the blackout hashtag trending worldwide. […]