'Unwired' Pakistan

The world may be growing more ‘wired’ all the time. China, for one, now has 210 million internet users, just shy of the 215 million in the United States.

But Pakistan, where I am now, is an exception. Only 2.12 percent of Pakistanis regularly use the internet. And many of them are still on slow dial-up connections.

According to this article, Pakistan has barely 3.5 million internet users in a population of 164.7 million. And it has only 13,500 web sites using the nation’s own .pk domain, a paltry sum.

“The reasons of these dismal figures are heavy taxes on computers and accessories, which is creating a negative impact on the Internet subscribers’ base as the Internet users are directly related to the computer growth,” the article says.

Comments

[poetryman69]

I dream of a Green China. Perhaps the last, best hope of mankind.

[S T]

How in the world do the jidhadist view their videos on dial-up links?

Aren't we glad that they don't have a better infrastructure?

[nanheyangrouchuan]

Thanks to some freedom loving Chinese and some righteous minded foreigners in China, the Bilderberg armies, the US, Japan, SK and Taiwan have the coordinates of the SA-10 defense grids around Beijing and Shanghai. Now the financial and cultural centers of China can be smashed should China misbehave in Asia:

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE East of Beijing
40 06'54.81 North 116 59'20.93 East
98 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE South East of Beijing
39 48'24.03 North 117 02'41.20 East
57 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE South of Beijing
39 34'36.38 North 116 45'38.33 East
59 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE South West of Beijing
39 22'44.91 North 116 07'51.48 East
85 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE West of Dalian - Yingchengzi PLAAF base
39 00'18.46 North 121 24'00.15 East
30 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE North of Shanghai
31 49'23.95 North 121 51'00.70 East
13 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE North of Shanghai
31 29'24.70 North 121 16'42.86 East
11 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE south of Shanghai
30 52'53.32 North 121 52'16.48 East
16 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE southwest of Shanghai
30 50'17.81 North 121 33'41.35 East
10 ft. Elevation

PLA SA-10 SAM SITE Gangtou
25 34'34.88 North 119 27'15.44 East
52 ft. Elevation

PLAAF SA-10 SAM SITE AT Luocheng
25 01'59.45 North 118 48'26.19 East
54 ft. Elevation

[Pffefer]

hehe, nh, you think the Chinese are dumb enough to keep these missiles there after this, if that's actually where they are actually at?

Smashing China? Go ahead and do it.