Canadian company awarded dirty tricks contract by pakistans leading telecom provider

1. CANADIAN COMPANY AWARDED
DIRTY TRICKS CONTRACT BY
PAKISTANI STATE- 0UR SEPTEMBER
2017 ASSESSMENT PROVED
CORRECT ON 25 OCT 2019
WE HOLD THE VIEW THAT 98 % OF
TERRORISM IS CARRIED OUT BY
STATE PROXIES WORLDWIDE FOR
VARIOUS REASONS—THE TERM NON
STATE ACTOR IS IN 99 % CASES
PURE FICTION !

3. Thursday, September 14, 2017
Canadian Company
subcontracted by Stinking dirty
tricks GANGS of ISLAMABAD
AND RAWALPINDI to HACK ,
CYBER ATTACK, SPAM their
OPPONENTS
Canadian Company subcontracted by Stinking dirty
tricks GANGS of ISLAMABAD AND RAWALPINDI to
HACK , CYBER ATTACK, SPAM their
OPPONENTS
High Placed source in Rawalpindi
http://csio-ops-csio.blogspot.com/2017/09/canadian-company-subcontracted-by.html

4. PAKISTANS LEADING DAILY PAPER DAWN THUS REPORTED AS BELOW
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KARACHI: The government has
acquired the services of a
controversial Canada-based
company to help build a
nationwide “web monitoring
system”, according to a New
York-based publication Coda
Story.
The report in Coda said that Sandvine
is expected to provide equipment for
monitoring and analysing all incoming
and outgoing internet traffic from
Pakistan.
In May, reports surfaced that the
Pakistan Telecommunication
Authority (PTA) had directed the
telecom industry to deploy a “suitable

5. technical solution” for monitoring,
analysing and curbing “grey traffic” —
which includes Voice over Internet
Protocol and Virtual Private Networks.
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs
Azam Khan Swati told the Senate
earlier that the PTA had asked Inbox
Business Technologies and Sandvine
Inc, to provide equipment for
monitoring grey traffic. At the same
time, he maintained that PTA was not
involved with either of the companies
and no public funds had been spent on
the project.
Outsourcing of web
monitoring to Sandvine
raises concern

6. However, according to the Coda
report, a March 2018 tender available
on the PTA’s website invited bids for
the web monitoring system (WMS) “at
national level, for identifying and
blocking access to any on-line content
classified as unlawful under
Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act
2016”.
Sharing details of the agreement, the
report says the WMS contract is worth
$18.5 million and it’s dated Dec 12,
2018. The web monitoring system will
use Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) to
monitor communications, measure
and record traffic and call data on
behalf of the PTA.
The contract, it adds, was signed by a
number of parties, including Pakistan
firm Inbox Business Technologies Ltd,

7. which is acting as a local partner for
Sandvine and Pakistan
Telecommunication Company Limited
(PTCL) for “procurement of hardware,
software and provision of related
services for web monitoring system”.
The new system is the result of a
controversial 2010 law that mandates
the monitoring and blocking of any
traffic to and from Pakistan.
The report points out that as per a
source working at Inbox Business
Technologies — which appears to have
been licensed to install Sandvine’s
equipment — the WMS system is not
yet operational.
When asked if PTA had contracted the
services of Sandvine or Inbox Business
Technologies, Coda was told that the

8. authority was not in “any agreement or
contract with Inbox or Sandvine at
present or in the past”.
However, the regulator pointed out
that these companies “may have been”
providing technology to the country’s
telecom industry.
The report highlights Sandvine’s role
in web monitoring in Pakistan. In
2012, when the government first called
for proposals for the building of an
internet filtering system, Sandvine was
among the companies that responded
to human rights concerns and said it
would not bid for the project.
A tender notice available on the
PTCL’s website confirmed that
Sandvine was providing its services in

9. Pakistan dating back at least 2016, it
adds.
Sandvine, the report says, came under
fire last year after an investigation by
the Canada-based Citizen Lab revealed
that its DPI was being used in Turkey,
Egypt and Syria to redirect users to
download legitimate programs
‘bundled with spyware’.
The Citizen Lab also found out that the
Sandvine DPI equipment was being
used to “block political, journalistic,
and human rights content”, it adds.
Despite criticism, the PTA maintains
that grey traffic is a crime and its
efforts to monitor it through a
technical solution are in accordance
with law and with joint efforts of all
the stakeholders.

10. Published in Dawn, October 25th,
2019
https://www.dawn.com/news/1512784/govt-working-with-controversial-firm-to-
monitor-internet-traffic-report

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