Archive for January, 2008

Internet services effected in Pakistan, India and Egypt

Pakistan reported minor while India reported serious disruptions to its services and one Indian Internet service provider linked the problem to the Egyptian outage. “There has been a cable cut on several cable systems in Alexandria, Egypt, which has impacted Internet connectivity in India,”

Said damaged  also affected Pakistan The SEA ME WE- 4 Submarine Cable encountered a cut of 25 kilometres from Alexandria Cable Station of SMW4 (segment 4/Alexandria-Marseilles).

APP, a pakistan leading news agency added his experience in this story from Lahore.

“The cable cut disrupted all west-bound (towards Europe) traffic on SMW4 of all major upstream service providers like TIS, Verizon, etc. Internet Service Providers Association Vice President and Brain Telecommunication Limited (BTL) Director Dr Shahid Farooq Alvi told APP here on Wednesday that as a result all major operators of the region, including Pakistan/BTL, are experiencing congestion on west-bound routes.

He said the BTL had already shifted traffic load to its alternative paths to reduce degradation in services of the customers and was also working closely with the partners to increase alternative capacity.

“Moreover, our upstream connectivity with FLAG is also disrupted and we are currently working with FLAG NOC to get the exact ETR,” he added. Regretting the inconvenience, he said the BTL is taking every possible action to ensure that its customers face minimal service quality issues from the disruption”.

while watch GEO TV they reported in a breaking news that Load was shifted from SEA ME WE 4 to SEA ME WE 3 for pakistan region!

Fianally the accident happens due to badly dropped ship anchor, that damaged undersea Internet provisioning telecom cable in the  Mediterranean.

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Thank you United Stats of America

is this WAR AGAINST MANKIND or WAR AGAINST TERRORISM

While reading todays newspaper i shocked to sighted following news that about one million Iraqis has been killed in Iraq. as USA enters in Iraq state for sake of Iraqi Nation and for their Rights but what the reality is facts clearly shown below. we don’t figures in Afghanistan……. 

“More than one million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003, research published Wednesday showed.

According to data compiled by the Opinion Research Business (ORB) and its research partner the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS), a fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict.

The study based its findings on survey work involving the face-to-face questioning of 2,414 Iraqi adults aged 18 or above, and the last complete census in Iraq in 1997, which indicated a total of 4.05 million households.

Respondents were asked how many members of their household, if any, had died as a result of the violence in the country since 2003, and not because of natural causes.

“We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been the order of 1,033,000,” ORB said in a statement.

The margin of error for the survey was 1.7 percent, making the estimated range between 946,000 and 1.12 million fatalities.

The highest rate of deaths throughout the country occurred in Baghdad, where more than 40 percent of households had lost a family member.

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