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October 4th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
“It doesn’t work,” she said. “The government is saying its intelligence
agencies are not working, we can’t protect you, so we are going to block
everything.
“It represents a collapse of government.”
She added that such a move may not be technically possible and so far
Islamabad’s Interior Ministry, which would have to give final approval, has
played down prospects of a ban.
Even so, many Pakistanis took to social media to vent their anger at proposals
they said would prevent them communicating with friends and relatives.
Their complaints brought a dismissive outburst from Bilawal Bhutto Zardari,
the son of Benazir Bhutto and whose party controls the Sindh provincial
assembly.
He tweeted: “Dear Burgers, Sorry abt Skype/Viber/Whtsapp. Excuse us while we
catch some terrorists and save some lives. SMS for 3months. Sincerely BBZ.”
He said the government lacked the technology to monitor Skype messages and a
ban was the only way to protect the population.
Even by its own standards of misery, Pakistan has been hit hard by a wave of
attacks this year. Karachi has been particularly badly hit, with sectarian
and political killings.
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