Anti-Pakistan SMS Alerts in India
By Arsalan Mir | March 5, 2010 | 2 Comments
In the era where communication panorama is changing fast and furious and have made distances ever shorter this news about the Indian authorities alerting mobile subscribers to avoid calling Pakistan comes as a distress. The Daily Mail gives out the details.
At a time when revolution in telecom is bringing the world together by providing instant communication access over long distances, Indian Government has launched an SMS (Short Massages Service) campaign to discourage its population from making calls to Pakistan.
The information collected by The Daily Mail indicate that since Jan 21, 2010 an SMS is being received on the mobile phones to exercise extra care while calling anyone in Pakistan. Whenever a call is made to Pakistan, the caller receives an SMS; “You just made a call to ISD Code 0092 (Pakistan’s international dialing code). We urge you to exercise caution while calling unknown number and sharing personal details as it can be misused”.
Launching of an anti Pakistan campaign based on SMS technology is the latest ploy employed by the Indian intelligence agency RAW’s spin-doctors to vitiate the public mindset.
“With a massive anti Pakistan propaganda campaign on print and electronic media in full swing, harnessing the sweep of cell phone technology will only serve to further pollute the Indian masses’ mind; effectively working against normalizing relations with Pakistan”, observed Rajesh Mishra, a local professor, attached with a think tank for regional peace.
The SMS says that the caller on his will has made call to Pakistan, which normally many families across borders make and have been making since long. Is this to discourage such families?
Why specifically calling Pakistan has been cautioned as calling unknown number? If it was about to alert customers of sharing personal or as a matter of fact any detail on unknown number for security reasons the message could have been sent after all international calls made.
By trying to impose barrier on communications, I doubt that Aman Ki Asha (joint effort of Jang Group and The Times of India) will fail.
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September 3rd, 2010 @ 12:54 am
that is very strange !