Guessing the motives of attackers is always difficult, but this probably has less to do with international politics and more with local politics and personal disputes. http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/apr2003-daily/12-04-2003/business/b2.htm KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has decided to isolate government websites from Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) to make internet browsers safe from Denial of Service attacks, which slow down the internet speed to a snail's pace, sources close to the company said on Friday. "The PTCL has decided to isolate these (government's) websites from PIE by providing a 2 megabyte IPLC link to National Telecommunications Corporation (NTC) and all sites are hosted at the server connected to this IPLC," sources added. "In this way, rest of Pakistan's internet could be safe from DoS attacks and only these 2 megabytes link would be effected," they added. Pakistani websites have been facing attacks by some hackers for over a month and thanks to DoS, the internet browsing is increasingly becoming a very trying job by the day. http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=22300 The Minister called up the presentation in the wake of strong reaction by the ISP community on the denial of service attacks on the Pakistan Internet Exchange for the last one month which also took its toll on the performance of entire internet infrastructure in the country. Earlier the company officials briefed the minister on the problems they had faced in the recent past on account of damage to their fiber optic cable as well as the incidents of denial of service attacks which slowed down the performance of all users.