Why did PTA stud down X services in Pakistan? - Social Media Expert's Analysis - video Dailymotion

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00:00 Twitter has been under siege since 17th February. Netblocks have been seen in the world. It has been more than a week.

00:21 Who is responsible for this? When we ask the government, they turn to PTA. They turn to the government of the alliance. This policy of Salimullah and Kaleemullah is adopted.

00:35 When Mr. Murtaza Solangi was asked why Twitter is shut, what did he have to say?

00:40 Who has done X? It would be better if you talk to the Minister of Information Technology and Chairman of PTA.

00:51 Then he asked the BBC from PTA, who has shut down the internet? PTA put the whole matter on the government.

00:59 He left the matter on the Ministry of Income. He said that the X has been shut down on the Ministry of Income. Mr. Murtaza Solangi does not know that the X has been shut down on the government.

01:11 He is putting it on PTA. PTA is saying that he is putting it on the government. No one is ready to take responsibility for this.

01:17 Today, the news came in the newspaper that the number of social media users in Pakistan is increasing rapidly. About 7 crore people use social media platforms.

01:30 You want to suppress the voice of such a large number of people in your country by shutting down Twitter and other forums? This does not make sense.

01:38 If you want to exist in 2024, you cannot do this. But it is happening in Pakistan. This was the position of the present government.

01:47 Where are the political parties of Pakistan standing on the matter of civil liberties? This is a big question mark.

01:54 If we talk about it, which political parties have raised their voice on this matter? We see only justice in this regard.

02:00 Ali Muhammad Khan tweeted that he is going to challenge this in the Islamabad High Court. He has challenged this on the basis of the party.

02:12 The next group is People's Party. We see that they have the capacity to take a principal position. But People's Party is completely silent on this matter.

02:23 When the internet was shut down on the day of the election, they took the petition. But it was also looking like the food was complete.

02:29 Neither PTI nor People's Party had issued pre-emptive petitions. We should not expect these things from PMLN.

02:36 Because all such laws have been created in their time, in which the internet has been banned and the lives of internet activists have been put in difficulty.

02:44 So, the question is that if the internet is not being shut down by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and PTA, then who will take responsibility for it?

02:52 The most hilarious angle in this is that our Prime Minister, Nigran is the Prime Minister and he is a guest for a few days.

02:59 When he tweets, he uses VPN. That is, you are encouraging the whole nation to buy free VPN and get whatever VPN you get.

03:09 And tweet through it. Because the whole country is tweeting like this.

03:14 Mr. Omar Saif, who talks about the IT ministry and revolution and tells how Pakistan is taking off, the digital revolution is coming,

03:21 he is also tweeting using VPN several times. So, he is also encouraging you, the Minister of IT, to use VPN.

03:31 But there is a very important aspect to all this. And that is that many people's employment is linked to Twitter.

03:39 Mr. Navid Iftikhar is also my personal friend and if we look at the formalities of reading and writing in Pakistan and the forward-looking capacities to build,

03:48 he also does a lot of publicity. He says that he met his Saudi tech company and when he saw that the internet was shut down in Pakistan,

03:57 he has refused to outsource work inside Pakistan.

04:02 That is, people who belong to the IT class in Pakistan, whose employment is linked to them, you see that when they will not get work,

04:10 then the money that has to come inside Pakistan, the economic activity inside Pakistan will also be pushed.

04:15 So, leave all the talks, if the economy of Pakistan has to take off, there will be a digital revolution, then it cannot be done with such restrictions.

04:23 This is a very basic principle. How will it be better if you see it as new normal and how will the events of people's earning and employment be affected?

04:34 Mr. Usama Khilji is also a social media expert, he is also very active in all these matters.

04:39 Usama, the issue is that if you do not have censorship and civil liberties in this, but our tech sector,

04:46 which is not directly creating state opportunities for them, they themselves are creating opportunities by moving forward, their work will also be affected.

04:55 So, what is this thing in our national conscience that you are actually hurting people by doing this kind of work?

05:05 Yes, this is a very big problem for the IT sector of Pakistan.

05:10 If you look at the IT sector, it is the only sector that has improved in its performance during and after Covid.

05:18 And the work of Pakistani freelancers, who are young, is known as the best freelancer in the whole country.

05:27 And as you said, they are creating their own opportunities, they are learning online, then they are providing services to clients.

05:35 And this is due to the foreign exchange of dollars that is very important to us.

05:43 But as you showed, even after 9th May, we saw that the internet was shut down for 4 days in the whole country.

05:50 And after that, all the websites of freelancers, the Pakistani service providers were getting notices that

05:58 if you want to work from Pakistan, the internet is shut down there, they will not be able to work for you.

06:06 And even now we see that more companies are saying that if you look at the risk assessment,

06:11 then any website is shut down tomorrow, no response from the government, so it is an environment of uncertainty.

06:18 And because of that, a very big shock is falling on our business and IT sector.

06:24 In fact, it is already very late. So I think if they want to improve, improve the economy, improve people's livelihood,

06:34 then you should invest more in this and keep training more people, instead of shutting down the internet and social media for political reasons.

06:44 And anyway, people will keep talking, if you shut down Twitter, then people are not using it with VPN.

06:50 Or no one is talking about anything other than Twitter, no one is thinking about any exchange between them,

06:55 so it is a counterproductive measure.

06:57 Okay, I talked about political parties, if we look at the history, then people's parties,

07:06 in committees and other places, have better positions.

07:08 Tariq-e-Insaf, because they are the victims in this whole issue, so they are very vocal.

07:12 PM Leng is silent, if you give a scorecard, which political party has more commitment to civil liberties?

07:20 I think no one has, and we can see that. Why haven't you raised your voice against any political party yet?

07:27 And your young people are expecting you, so how are you representing them?

07:33 If you want to be a party of young leaders, or want support from young leaders,

07:38 if your leadership is young, then why aren't you showing that you are speaking for young people?

07:43 You create pressure, if political parties don't do this, then why are they in politics, why are they in government?

07:50 Is it because they use our taxes to come to government,

07:54 and bring our votes, so that they can impose more restrictions on people?

07:58 So I think it is a big failure on their part, on the other hand, you see,

08:03 the voice is coming from civil society and media, but apart from that, people are talking on social media,

08:09 but all political parties are doing the same thing.

08:13 PM Leng brought the PICA law, then PTI tried to make it worse,

08:19 and both parties have been victims of this law.

08:23 And the People's Party could have stopped it in the Senate when PM Leng brought it, but they didn't.

08:29 So I think everyone is involved in this, and I think they are more afraid,

08:33 because they don't like people answering, because people have a voice on social media,

08:38 and they ask you for answers, and raise questions.

08:42 So this is a progress of the democracy, social media, on which people raise questions.

08:47 So the more you engage with it, the more your presence will be there,

08:51 and the state should also bring more information there.

08:54 Absolutely right, thank you very much Osama.

Why did PTA stud down X services in Pakistan? - Social Media Expert's Analysis

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