PNS Mehran: Govt Should Ban Google Maps for Sensitive Locations: ProPakistani

PNS Mehran: Govt Should Ban Google Maps for Sensitive Locations

Posted: 22 May 2011 03:44 PM PDT

PNS Mehran: Govt Should Ban Google Maps for Sensitive Locations is a post from: ProPakistani

Before I say anything, let's view following pictures, available publicly on Google Maps:

PNS Mehran 07 PNS Mehran: Govt Should Ban Google Maps for Sensitive Locations

To view more images, and detailed geographical information of the Navy Base, PNS Mehran, that is being attacked by around or over a dozen highly armed gunmen, click this link.

You will witness that Google has updated satellite imagery of entire base, assets, compounds, buildings, its surroundings, fields and Chakora Nala around the base walls.

By going through the entire base via Google Maps, and navigating through the images available in there, one may not deny the fact that this service might have served terrorists for laying out their attack plan.

Due level of details mentioned in maps, it is likely that terrorists had studied these (Google) maps so well before their attack.

Like other nations, including India, at this point of time Pakistan government should direct Google to stop taking satellite images of sensitive locations through out the country. Government of Pakistan, through Ministry of IT, should send a detailed list of deployments where Google should be asked to blur the images and/or not take close-up images.

Attack Details:

The militants stormed hangars housing aircraft, officials said. Destroying at least one Maritime surveillance aircraft, P3C-Orion.
According to BBC there's a possible hostage situation at PNS Mehran
As of now, 4 deaths, half a dozen injuries are confirmed by DG PR Pakistan Navy
Officials say it is a terror attack, and commandos are fighting back.
No group has claimed the raid
The operation is continuing…

wi-tribe Likely to Launch a New Service

Posted: 22 May 2011 02:29 PM PDT

wi-tribe Likely to Launch a New Service is a post from: ProPakistani

We are told by inside sources that wi-tribe, the WiMAX service provider, is planning to launch a prepaid service called Pay'n Go.

We are yet to identify the complete details of the the upcoming offering, however, from the name it is safe to predict that company is planning to offer contract-less and short term WiMAX packages to its customers.

As said above, we are waiting for more details on this, so at this point of time comparing wi-tribe's prepaid model with other operator's will be little early.

This service will apparently serve as a trial to assess the true potential of the demand for prepaid broadband. In fact it is learnt that they have already enabled these services below the radar for a select group of customers.

We anticipate that service will be available to public in a week at most.

wi-tribe has been coming up with quite a few "first times" of late , so let's see how they fare with pre-paid broadband, which some experts feel is the catalyst for the much awaited boom in the broadband industry.