Pakistan Cellphone

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  Cellphone Blocks, Work Bans: Pakistan Announces Penalties For Unvaccinated

  Tens of thousands of Pakistanis are thronging coronavirus vaccination centres daily after officials announced penalties for the unvaccinated, including blocked cell phones and barred access to offices, restaurants, shopping malls and transport.

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  Floods Kill 23 In Pakistan's Karachi, Heavy Rain Expected To Continue

  Pakistan's flooded financial capital of Karachi was plunged into chaos on Friday with power cuts, streets under water and cellphone outages caused by heavy rain as authorities said at least 23 people had been killed in downpours the previous day.

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  Indian Diplomat's Cellphone Seized While He Was In Pakistan Court

  At a time when India-Pakistan tension has escalated considerably over Islamabad's plans to execute an Indian, a senior Indian diplomat's phone was seized today in a Pakistani court.

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  Major Separatist Network Found Operating Out Of Kashmir Jail, Say Police

  A major separatist network has been found operating from inside a jail in Kashmir's Baramulla, instigating unrest in the state, the police said. The clue to the network came after 16 cellphones were seized from the district jail after police carried out major crackdown in the district jail. The police said some hardcore terrorists and separatist pr...

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  Workers Trapped in Pakistan Factory Plead for Help on Cellphones

  Survivors trapped in the rubble of a collapsed Pakistani factory pleaded for help on their mobile phones today even as rescuers said they feared the death toll of 18 could rise in the latest tragedy to spotlight poor safety standards in south Asia.

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  232 kg Heroin, Satellite Phones in Pakistani Boat Seized Near Porbandar, Says Coast Guard

  The Coast Guard today put on display the 232 packets of narcotics and the cellphones and satellite phones seized from the Pakistani boat intercepted off Gujarat's Porbandar on Monday.

• Islamist agitation fuels unrest in Bangladesh

  One night in February, Rajib Haider was set upon near his Dhaka home by five knife-wielding youths. His face was so lacerated that a relative who found the body wasn't sure it was him until he called Haider's cellphone and heard it ring inside a pocket.

• Pakistani Shi'ites receive death threat text messages

  Pakistani Shi'ites, targeted in three explosions which killed 16 people on Wednesday, are now receiving death threat text messages on cellphones ahead of a key event in their religious calendar that has been tainted by violence in the past.

• Terrorist used Facebook, cellphone to escape from Pakistan jail

  Taliban militants had stormed a jail in Pakistan's northwest primarily to free Adnan Rashid, on death row for an attempt to assassinate former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, and who was in touch with the outside world through a mobile phone, Facebook and blogs.

• Pakistan bans 'obscene' words on cellphone texts

  Pakistan's telecommunications authority sent a letter ordering cell phone companies to block text messages containing what it perceives to be obscenities, Anjum Nida Rahman, a spokeswoman for Telenor Pakistan, said Friday.

• Terror crackdown: Pak blocks 10.2 mn cellphones

  In a massive crackdown against the use of mobile phones in terrorist activities, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked 10.2 million SIM cards.

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  Revelation: Mumbai attackers used Chinese cellphones

  A witness has told the special court in Mumbai that five mobile phones used by 26/11 terrorists were manufactured in China and shipped to Pakistan.