Sindhu Abbasi

Oct 22, 2024 | dawn.com | Sindhu Abbasi

Some weeks ago, a LinkedIn user shared a video about a man in Lahore whose CNIC had been used to post bail for different people in separate cases. The man told a Vlogger that he had gone to a xerox shop to get his CNIC photocopied. Sometime later, he discovered that his ID was being used by various persons. “I have been tracing where my ID has been used for a year, and moved court too,” he said. Cases like these are not uncommon in Pakistan.

Oct 6, 2024 | dawn.com | Sindhu Abbasi

Khadija Hafiz was looking to buy a black cloth for her lawyer’s gown at Lahore’s Liberty Market when a man approached her.

Aug 18, 2024 | dawn.com | Sindhu Abbasi |Abbas Nasir

In April 1869, William H. Mumler, an American photographer who claimed that he could capture ghosts and spirits in his pictures, was brought to trial for fraud. In one picture, a woman sits on a chair, and on her lap is a faint image of a baby that reminds you of Casper the Ghost. Mumler’s clients, among others, were loved ones of people who had died in the American Civil War and were looking for closure.

Aug 12, 2024 | dawn.com | Sindhu Abbasi

Once again, Pakistan is on its way to tightening the digital noose. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is clamping down on VPN usage, aiming to prevent access to the already banned platform X. “After the policy is implemented, only whitelisted VPNs would function in Pakistan and the others will be blocked,” revealed PTA Chairman retired Maj General Hafeezur Rehman during a recent meeting of the Standing Committee on Cabinet Sec­retariat.

Mar 2, 2024 | dawn.com | Sindhu Abbasi |Navaira Ali Bangash

On a cold January morning, newly graduated Waheeda took off her shoes and entered a data centre for the first time in her life. The small but heavy door could only be opened by data centre staff, with a security code to be entered into a machine mounted on the wall. Inside, it was freezing cold, and a man with knee-length, bright yellow rubber boots explained the dos and don’ts of being in a data centre of TechM*, an internet service provider (ISP) located in Korangi, Karachi.