Pakistani authorities have blocked access to the social media website Twitter because of messages they say are offensive to Islam. They talked of "blasphemous and inflammatory" material although it is not clear exactly what the tweets said. Some officials mentioned a 2010 Facebook competition involving pictures of the...

Islamabad , May 21: Pakistani authorities on Sunday briefly blocked access to Twitter on the ground that it was being used to promote a contest on Facebook for blasphemous caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed before Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stepped in to end the ban. The Information Technology Ministry said Twitter was blocked for publicising "blasphemous and inflammatory content". Calls for participation in the contest for blasphemous caricatures were being made on Twitter, the ministry said. Gilani orders lifting of ban on Twitter in Pakistan The ministry said Twitter was blocked after it failed to respond to several requests from Pakistan for taking action against blasphemous...

SHARE AND DISCUSSTweetPakistan restored access to Twitter on Sunday after briefly blocking the microblog over posts that Islamabad said promoted a Facebook contest involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. ISLAMABAD: Pakistan restored access to Twitter Sunday after briefly blocking the microblog over posts that Islamabad said promoted a Facebook contest involving caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. The website, which is widely used in Pakistan, was blocked by the telecoms authority on the orders of the IT ministry,...

Tweets offensive to Islam have prompted Pakistan’s government to block...

Wipro Ltd. (WPRO) is seeking to make more than $1 billion in acquisitions over the next 18 months, adding intellectual property and software to help boost profit, Chairman Azim Premji said. India’s third-largest computer-services provider is targeting deals between about $50 million and $300 million, though “it’s not a hard cap,” Premji said in a May 18 interview in New York. The company relies mostly on an internal mergers and acquisitions team led by Rishad Premji, the chairman’s son, to hunt for candidates, rather than using investment banks. “We are trying to create deals, rather than just react to deals which are lying with investment bankers, because we find our win rates are much...

Poor Family appeal for relaxation their heir land from Land Mafia. CHITRAL: A poor family of Goboor valley near to Pak Afghan border area of Tehsil Lutkoh crying to save their land from Land mafia. Addressing to a press conference at Chitral an aged man whose body was shocking and wept before the journalist that they have land of their fore-father in heir since 8 genealogy and the land is still...

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials. The tweets were promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad, said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication's Authority. Many...

ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The chairman of Pakistan's telecommunications authority says the government has blocked the social...

Share Talking Points Memo this morning pointed to this interview yesterday between Arizona conservative radio host and Secretary of State Ken Bennett. In the interview, Bennett said it would be “possible” that he keeps President Obama off the Arizona ballot in November unless he receives “confirmation” from the state of Hawaii that Barack Obama was born there. We’ve reached out to Bennett, but haven’t heard back yet. Bennett insisted in the radio interview that he’s not a “birther,” the term that has become synonymous with the conspiracy theorists purporting that Obama was not born in the United States. “I believe that the president...

Share Witnessing a total solar eclipse is considered one of the planet’s most spectacular sights, but many who’ve seen both say that a ring-of-fire eclipse is just as dramatic. Hundreds of millions across the world will get a chance to see one on today. ­Both types of eclipses happen when the Moon moves between the Sun and the Earth, blocking out sunlight. A total eclipse occurs when the Moon is close enough to our planet to totally obscure the Sun. Meanwhile a ring-of-fire, or annular eclipse, appears when the Moon is further away and does not prevent all sunlight from getting through. During an annular eclipse, as the Moon aligns with the Sun, it appears as if there is a black hole in the...