It’s a nightmare for any webmaster to go account-corrupt due to non-payment, especially when you are backed by millions of rupees reserved for the purpose. However, this has been happening in consistent manner with Pakistan’s government websites.
Currently, Export Promotion Bureau website is showing account suspension message from hosting service provider, which is a genuinely very irresponsible behavior of webmaster on his part.
And just in case if you don’t know, hosting server providers send multiple reminder emails for non-payments before locking your accounts.
With this instance of account lock-down, one can safely anticipate that these guys at government institutes don’t check their business emails at all, irrespective of the fact that they are most likely to be equipped with blackberries and high class broadband access at their homes and offices.
One more thing, on an added note, with the hosting account suspension – all emails of the board are going to go down, which means no further emails could be sent/received by these officials at Export Promotion Bureau. Apparently this is not going to bother anyone.
This situation is more like: No website means no extra work!
We have written in past about the misery of government websites, and how they can be bettered. But it looks that the caliber of our government is really not in accordance with cyber needs of the time.
You will be amazed to know the fact that recently Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s website went into account-suspension mode due to non-payment.
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There should not any surprises as the EPB was reincarnated as the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) in 2006. TDAP’s website is up and running at http://www.tdap.gov.pk/
A little homework is always advisable before jumping to conclusions.
Even in that case, there should have been a 301 not account suspension
Agree – that’s what we call permanent redirection.
Just for added info here, website was up till 2 weeks ago. Here’s the cached copy
Actually, I think there is no need to have a EBP website. All the sectors of the industry and the media are told that it is now TDAP and they all have been doing business there.
nice article writing style
bad side always remain close to IT and Telecom of Pakistan
This is very amazing that their didnt do a 301 redirect. I dont think pro pakistani can ever post an unconfirmed news.
epb.gov.pk is an old and famous site, must have been a child site now.
WOW..this is still suspended. Those who have decision powers have little knowledge of technology and its importance and therefore pay very less attention to it so not a big deal for them.
P.S. Does anybody knows when revenue record will be online? Patwari log kafi rishwat mangtay hain :@
Poor government…
THESE R PAKISTAN GOVT OFFICIALS THEY WASTE NATIONAL WEALTH IN CORRUPTION AND IN THOSE PROJECT I/W KIK BAKS COMMISSION PROVIDED HIM
i think this is not the thing to LET non pakistani know , this creates a more bad image for paki .
any how.
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Well, EPB is TDAP for quite a few years now. Secondly, because of some internal arrangement, EPB is runnning a site on
epblhr.gov.pk to redirect users.
But why it is epb.gov.pk not being redirected and a different one setup on epblhr.gov.pk?
Does it got to do something with recent Indian attack on Pakistani domains.
http://www.indiafm.com is not an official site from neighbour country though but as a small example of responsibility you can still see after over an year of their business name changed they are still redirecting the users to new site from old domain.
same is the case with us. ProPakistani.com is no longer in use, but we are redirecting every single URL to new ProPakistani.PK domain
BHai Pakistan mai kis ko kitni tameez ikhlaf insaniat qanoon ka pass hai mujhay aur ap sab ko pata hai. Jahan Police Stations mai larka aur larki dono ky rape hotay hon wahan aur kia umeed karian gy aap?
Lagta hay hosting kay pesay b Zardaari Uncle kee Jaib mein jatay hain =))
That’s really interesting. kia ho ga is desh ka??
Arsalan Tariq
Dear Mr Aamir, I have just seen your article by chance which is really amusing as it has no basis for any kind of allegations that you have accused Govt of Pakistan for.. !
EPB has not only become TDAP (Trade Development Authority of Pakistan) but it also has launched its re-vamped web-portal around a year back on 18th of December 2010.
Please visit http://www.tdap.gov.pk for complete details and I would request all of Pakistanis to please keep your mind-set open to new avenues and do a thorough research before putting any kind of allegations or accusation on any Organization regardless of Government or Private domain.
We all as a Pakistani have a huge responsibility to fulfill regarding improving the image of this country and people like your good self should be using your own platforms for positive things rather than highlighting only the dark sides which also has no basis.
Thanks !
A Stupid
Excuse from Misbah !
Aqal Nain
Tay Mojan hi Mojan ……
There
must be an Announcement and new address to divert the traffic at the EPB site, as convention.
Now U should tell this to all world and also, like
wikipedia which says,
“Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) was established in 1963 as an attached
department of the Ministry of Commerce.”
after eating EPB, 45 years old Deptt. for how long this
TDAP will prevail and
the Govt. officials should also suggest the next name after eating this Revenue Department.
These Deptts. Cost heavely and output Nil.
Sha Bash Ministry of Commerce.