Pakistan Blogger Updates
By Curt on Nov 5, 2007 in Awab Alvi, Pakistan
Dr. Awab Alvi of Teeth Maestro is reporting on the ground from Karachi via Blackberry.
Ange Embuldeniya is handling the actual posting out of fear that the press crackdown following Musharraf’s “state of emergency” will soon result in a crackdown on bloggers. New York Times’ blog The Lede detailed the method in a recent post.
I asked the good doctor whether blogs had been effected yet. “Luckily no,” he said. “But we remain on the watch. The government has bigger fish to fry with private news channels before they turn on us.”
Subscribe to Dr. A’s feed for reports and photos of protests and actions on the street.
Even before the “state of emergency” was declared, Pakistan began lowering the boom on electronic communications, including blogs.
Update: Pakistani students have created the Emergency Times to give constant updates on the martial law situation in their country.
