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FC: Pakistan bans Internet along Indian border as "security measure"

------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 21:27:42 -0500 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Pakistan bans Internet along Indian border as "security measure" Send reply to: declan@well.com

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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. [...]

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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

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