Awab Alvi

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Teeth Maestro aka Dr. Awab Alvi has been an active blogger since July 2004 blogging at Teeth Maestro where he shares his concerns about politics and other such issues that may bug him from time to time.
Dr. Awab Alvi is a Dentist by profession with a specialty in Orthodontics (Saint Louis Univ, MO, USA) and Root Canal (Univ of Penn, PA, USA), he maintains a full time practice at Alvi Dental Hospital in Karachi (website) at Sindhi Muslim Society.

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Latest posts by Awab Alvi

9 February 2010

Pakistan: PTA Blocks President's “Shut-Up” Video

Written by Awab Alvi · Advocacy, Feature, Pakistan, Pakistan, PTA, youtube

Sunday evening [7th February 2010] Youtube.com started facing intermittent reports of irregular inaccessibility across various ISP's in Pakistan. It initially started off with a simple white page displaying the word...

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3 October 2009

Pakistan: Army Human Rights Video being censored

Written by Awab Alvi · Advocacy, Feature, Middle East & North Africa, Pakistan, video

A certain video showing images of Pakistan Army's military brutality during its offensive in Swat has surfaced across the web. BBC: The video shows of an officer in Pakistani army...

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2 August 2009

Pakistan: Funny SMS's may land Pakistanis in for a fourteen year prison sentence

Written by Awab Alvi · Feature, Law, Pakistan, Regulation

Pakistans' Minister of Interior Rehman Malik recently announced a 14 year prison sentence for anyone found propagating SMS and emails ridiculing or making fun of the present Pakistani leadership and its elected government officials. The statement issued by the Ministry of Interior actually referenced the Cyber Crime Act of 2009 which apparently may subject the violators to at least 14 years behind bars.

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3 January 2009

Pakistan Censors Pictures of Governor – Harmful for the Integrity of Pakistan

Written by Awab Alvi · Advocacy, Feature, News, Pakistan

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the internet monitoring body in Pakistan has issued directives to all its ISP providers to block a list of six webpages on the grounds that they were “harmful for the integrity of the country.”

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