BlackBerry delays Pakistan shutdown as talks on govt access continue

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 Nov. 30.
The PTA on Monday then suggested a one-mon