My latest observation strengthens my belief that Pakistan’s government is indeed tech illiterate. You are bound to find some blunders whenever you happen to stop by any official website of Pakistan government.
I was doing a university project on the topic ‘Pakistan Presidency.’ So I thought I should google some data about the topic, so as to be able to prepare the report. I typed the search term ‘presidents of pakistan.’ The 3rd search result was of a link on the official website of State i.e. Pakistan.Gov.PK. It felt good to see that apparently the website is good at search engine optimization.
The real thing that made me sick was that I was taken to a page that has a list with the heading ‘PRESIDENTS OF PAKISTAN SINCE INDEPENDENCE.’ And while all the presidents were listed in the order and guess who was the latest president there? It was General (r) Pervez Musharraf with the title somewhat like this:
General Pervez Musharraf
i) President under P.C.O. 20-6-2002 to 16-11-2002
ii) President under the Constitution 16-11-2002 to date
See this yourself here is the link: http://www.pakistan.gov.pk/divisions/ContentInfo.jsp?DivID=13&cPath=118_124&ContentID=2546
Also here are the screen shots:
Now this thing is really amazing, isn’t it? I mean entire year has passed since the president was replaced and Pakistan State’s official website says Musharraf is ‘to date’ and ‘under constitution’ president of Pakistan. Would you say that these are minor blunders? Well certainly NO! In this age of Internet and IT, This is a MAJOR BLUNDER. There’s a big responsibility on all those who publish/monitor content on the official websites of the government. I am not even sure if they even have someone to monitor ! o_O
Well That’s it! I have no words further, you got something to say? feel free to submit your comments.
