Most Islamist propaganda available online can be picked up cheaply from almost any newsstand in Pakistan despite a strict ban Among 80 or so such terror publications are 18 weeklies, 40 bimonthlies and 22 monthlies.
The publications are often published in Urdu with plenty of Arabic and some English to cater to a wide range of Pakistani society.
One Islamic magazine named Bazu-e-Mujahid has more than 7,000 subscribers from Karachi to New York, and is focused on enforcing the Caliphate in Pakistan.
Another magazine is Al-Jehad, Mujhaid [sic?] printed in Karachi. Another is Jihad Kashmir printed in Rawalpindi.
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Two jihadi magazines and a newsletter called Haq-e-Awaz and Allah Commandos both published in Karachi gloried in the recent killing of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and wrote in an editorial that "Qadri was the new hero of the ummah" and "anyone who betrays the ideology of Islam and Pakistan should be killed".
A senior intelligence official said, "There is a proper mechanism in place to monitor such hate-literature, but at times acting on it due to certain provisions in law that safeguard such hate literature makes them hard to actually be stopped."