The Pakistani Spectator

In Pakistan, Internet is steadily become ubiquitous everywhere, especially in the cities. Due to the illiteracy and ignorance and the lesser opportunities, majority of Pakistanis are unable to truly reap the benefit of the revolution, which Internet offers.

Internet cafes and Internet shops are present now at the corner of every street and market. These internet shops are fast replacing snooker clubs and video game shops and mini cinema houses. These Internet cafes have become the hub of providing pornographic movies to everyone with 10 or 20 rupees for an hour. Many of these cafes also have cabins where couples go and watch whatever the want and do whatever they want. There were and are reports of hidden cam movies of these Internet café cabins selling at high prices in the markets.

All sorts of institutions are in big trouble because of the internet in Pakistan. People don’t really know what Internet and WWW is all about, but they know that they could watch porn images and videos on net very easily and cheaply. I think that’s the tip of things, and many people who has anything to do with information (schools, governments, book publishers, television, public broadcasters, among others) are all more or less using net just for blue entertainment.

Due to the cheapness and easy availability of video cameras the internet and the method of uploading these videos and images to Internet; you can see the pile of home grown Pakistani porn images, videos, clips and movies increasing on daily basis on sites like YouTube.com and plethora of others.

Another alarming thing is that due to the easy and cheap technology, and instant earning people are finding it more lucrative to make a snap and quick porn movie by using a cheap prostitute and send it to any of the thousands western porno sites in exchange of few dollars. This business is really thriving in Lahore and Karachi and this evil is spreading.

The recent Cyber crime ordinance should encompass this rising evil, and authorities should trace down and clamp down on such nefarious elements, who are eroding our society. But the real sad thing is that majority of Pakistanis are just searching for Pakistani porn on the net, so I am expecting that people would reach to this post while searching for porn in Pakistan, and perhaps they would realize that its of no use, and they should this fabulous medium for progress and knowledge.