BlackBerry Will Continue Operations In Pakistan (fortune.com)

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday January 2, 2016 @11:42AM from the walk-it-on-back dept.

An anonymous reader writes: At the end of November, BlackBerry announced it would pull its operations out of Pakistan after the country's government demanded access to BlackBerry's user data. The Pakistan government has now dropped that request, and BlackBerry will continue operating there as a result. In a statement, BlackBerry COO Marty Beard said, "We are grateful to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and the Pakistani government for accepting BlackBerry's position that we cannot provide the content of our customers' BES traffic, nor will we provide access to our BES servers."

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Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · 2016-01-02 12:16 · Score: 2, Interesting

In the interest of accuracy ...
Your link is 5 years old. A more recent link (2013) indicates that Blackberry have allowed access to BBM and BIS, but NOT BES enterprise.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/07/11/blackberry_gives_indian_spooks_access/
In short, India and Pakistan have been given exactly the same deal.