[ NNSquad ] Pakistan to monitor all phone calls, email, and other Internet traffic (they claim)

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

Pakistan to monitor all phone calls, email, and other Internet traffic
(they claim)

http://j.mp/RYUDLB  (thenews.com.pk)

    ISLAMABAD: All emails, telephone calls and other communications with
    the rest of the world will begin to be monitored within 90 days at a
    cost of million of dollars, according to a deadline given by the
    government to operators including PTCL.  The government has assigned
    PTCL and other operators to install monitoring equipment by the end of
    this year for checking voice and email communications from abroad and
    the services of the country's spy agency will be used basically to
    check and curb blasphemous and obscene websites on the Internet.  "The
    regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), has
    assigned 14 LDIs, including PTCL, to install this monitoring
    equipment," senior executive vice president of the Pakistan
    Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) Sikandar Naqi toldThe News on
    Thursday.
 
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