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Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:50 AM

Zafar Baloch (C),46, walks in the hallway of a soccer club building at Lyari in Karachi September 5, 2013. Days before he was killed in a drive-by shooting in Karachi, Baloch said he would rather see the city in ruin than give up control over his turf in the country's volatile commercial capital. Baloch, a notorious figure wielding enormous power in Karachi, was killed by a group of gunmen on motorbikes overnight in an attack that sent shock waves through the sprawling port city generating a quarter of Pakistan's economy. Picture taken September 5, 2013. REUTERS/Athar Hussain (PAKISTAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS OBITUARY)

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:06 PM

Lawyer Yasser Latif Hamdani (C) speaks with colleagues at his office in Lahore September 18, 2013. Hamdani, who is suing the Pakistani government on behalf of internet freedom activists, said while some of the hundreds of web pages he had found blocked were pornographic, most were secular or sites belonging to religious minorities. Shadowy government officials are blocking thousands of pages deemed undesirable. But they are not fast enough. So the government is now testing Canadian software that can block millions of sites a second. The censorship helps shape the views of 180 million Pakistanis on militancy, democracy and religion. Online debates dissect attacks by U.S. drone aircraft, the uneasy alliance with the United States and prospects for peace with arch rival India. But activists say liberal voices are increasingly silenced while militants speak freely. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS TELECOMS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 17:00 PM

A man uses the computer at an internet cafe in Rawalpindi September 18, 2013. In a nondescript, creeper-draped building in the capital of Islamabad, a small team of men is purging Pakistan's Internet. Shadowy government officials are blocking thousands of pages deemed undesirable. But they are not fast enough. So the government is now testing Canadian software that can block millions of sites a second. The censorship helps shape the views of 180 million Pakistanis on militancy, democracy and religion. Online debates dissect attacks by U.S. drone aircraft, the uneasy alliance with the United States and prospects for peace with arch rival India. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS TELECOMS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 16:58 PM

A man sits at an internet cafe in Rawalpindi September 17, 2013. In a nondescript, creeper-draped building in the capital of Islamabad, a small team of men is purging Pakistan's Internet. Shadowy government officials are blocking thousands of pages deemed undesirable. But they are not fast enough. So the government is now testing Canadian software that can block millions of sites a second. The censorship helps shape the views of 180 million Pakistanis on militancy, democracy and religion. Online debates dissect attacks by U.S. drone aircraft, the uneasy alliance with the United States and prospects for peace with arch rival India. Picture taken September 17, 2013. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood (PAKISTAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS TELECOMS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)