Blogs being Blocked to Cover-up the Death of Saad Khan
Omar Javaid
Unilever is alleged to have run a cover-up of the incident (killing Saad Khan, father of four) by resorting to scare tactics, flexing its government connections and buying power. Serious counter efforts were made against Farhan Janjua of Aarpix.com, who first broke the story.
WebHostingPad suddenly issued Aarpix a short notice disabling his website for “nature of content”. They then told Farhan to quickly move his data with immediate effect or else they will delete his content.
Pakistan Local News paper Dawn is also alleged to have shown inclination towards Unilever when it disabled the Obituary of the victim. It was later fixed and attributed to technical difficulties. Social networking and Blog sites who have reported this incident also are slowly being blocked, including Pakistan most popular blog site Teeth Maestro, which is also inaccessible since Sunday (30th August 09).
This incident was first reported on 28th August 2009, when a young 32 year old person from Karachi, Pakistan, father of four kids lost his life during the filming of a reality show sponsored by Unilever and being produced by their advertising agency Mindshare on 23rd August 09 in Bangkok.
Saad Khan was a game show contestant and the host/model Amina Sheikh, who also is the model of Clear Shampoo, gave an underwater challenge to Saad and during the execution of the stunt he apparently lost control, the inadequate safety personal and the equipment could not react in time leading to his death. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilever)