Taliban website blocked in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan-based Internet provider has blocked a Taliban website after complaints that the ousted militia posted pictures of dead US soldiers and announced their attacks over it.   

Jan Technologies, based in northwestern Peshawar city, said they had blocked the www.alemarah.org website after a receiving a complaint from their US-based host server company but denied it was done under government pressure.   

"Someone complained to one of our host server companies that this site appeared to be a Taliban site which contained hate material and carried photos of dead marines," general manager Tehsin Ullah Jan said.   

"We have notified the client by email about the suspension," he said.   

Visitors to the website - which was called the Voice of Jihad and said it was run by the "Cultural Commission of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan" - were greeted with a message saying "Account Suspended".   

Pakistan has come under massive international pressure to crack down on Islamist Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants allegedly regrouping on its soil to launch attacks in Afghanistan.   

The Taliban's former defence minister, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund, was arrested in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta last week. The militia's former chief spokesman was seized in the same city in October 2005.