BlackBerry delays Pakistan shutdown

ISLAMABAD: BlackBerry Ltd will delay shutting down its operations in Pakistan until December 30 as negotiations continue over government demands for access to users´private data, the company and the telecoms authority said on Monday.
The state-run Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had in July demanded BlackBerry give it access to its BlackBerry Enterprise Services, which encrypt data such as emails and instant messages, or shut it down by November 30.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on Monday then suggested a one-month extension to that deadline, its chairman Syed Ismail Shah said.
BlackBerry also confirmed the extension in a statement on its website. "The level of access is still under discussion," Shah said.