On the other hand, admin of Siasatpk claimed that no warning was given before about the blocking of the website but notification was received through email from the hosting company Nexus which t is registrant for siasat.pk. It was mention in the email that Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) wants them to shut down Siasatpk quickly therefore Siasatpk has been shutdown according to the orders of FIA by removing DNS entries of the website.
On the other hand, Siasatpk further told that they have contacted with Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) who said that they have taken no action in this regard while FIA claimed that orders of shutdown was issued by PTA.
Meanwhile, Adeel Habib who is used to manage Siasatpk told that servers name of Siasatpk have removed from Nexus.pk due to which website become inaccessible. Siasatpk also asked about the issue from Nexus.pk but even they don’t know reasons behind the shutdown as they are responsible to follow the strategy of Law of enforcement. Adeel Habib shared his message through his tweet:
siasat.pk is down is because our name servers were suspiciously removed from Nexus.pk – Just spoke to them and they have no idea who did it
— Adeel Habib (@adeel786) September 11, 2015
Adeel Habib also said that threats were also received by them from higher officials by ordering to shut down Siasatpk within minutes. He revealed about the threat of higher authorities in a post of Siasatpk in which he also advised people to use Siasat.net and Siasat.org in case of shutdown of the website. However, Adeel Habib has told about the temporary solution of using Siasatpk while saying that efforts are being made to back with siasat.net.
[alert style=”white”] Siasatpk is back now with new domain Siasat.net which is a backup domain of the website registered outside the country. [/alert]
It is a force shutdown as we had not received any kind of threat and order during from any governmental source during the last few months, Adeel added.
Even after passing several hours of blockage of Siasatpk, no information has been appeared regarding who ordered to shut down Siasatpk and what are the reasons behind it. However several questions and doubts have been raised on the reliability of .PK domains as well as on the censorship of the internet.
