انٹرنیٹ

وقت کی ایک مختصر مدت کے اندر اندر، انٹرنیٹ نے ہماری زندگی کے تقریبا تمام پہلوؤں پر ایک شاندار اثر بنا دیا ہے. اس کے ذریعے ہم نئے خیالات اور مزید معلومات اور لامحدود امکانات اور کمیونٹیز کی ایک مکمل نئی دنیا کے لئے قابل رسائی بن سکتے ہیں. ہم اپنے کام، جس طرح سے ہم نے سیکھا ہے، اور ہم کس طرح دن کے بعد اگے دن منتقل کر سکتے ہیں کرنے کے لئے اپنی کارکردگی اضافہ ہوا ہے اور جس طرح سے ہم تعامل کو متاثر کرنے کے لئے تیار، اور راستے. جہاں تک ہماری زندگی ہے، انٹرنیٹ پر خود کو بھی وقت کے ساتھ تبدیل کر دیا گیا. 

انٹرنیٹ کیا ہے؟

جانیں بارے میں مختلف نقطہ نظر کو تاریخ کے انٹرنیٹ اور پڑھ تاریخی امپرنٹ انٹرنیٹ لوگوں کو پیدا کیا ہے جو کر.

کس طرح انٹرنیٹ کاموں؟

اس سے حاصل کی ایک کے لئے کس طرح مضبوط تفہیم انٹرنیٹ ورکس کے طور پر ایک نیٹ ورک ان کے نام اور کس طرح کے ہر جزو اس کے کام میں بنیادی اجزاء. 

انٹرنیٹ چلانے سے؟

کھنگالیں کے ماحولیاتی نظام کو انٹرنیٹ اور تنظیموں اور برادریوں کے بارے میں معلومات حاصل ، جس رہا ہے معروف تیاری اور چلانے میں انٹرنیٹ.

کس طرح انٹرنیٹ تیار کرنے کے لئے؟

کس طرح کرے گا میں آن لائن فارم دس سال (10) آ رہا؟  (صرف انگریزی میں) کا طریقہ دریافت یہ تیار کرتا ہے اور کس طرح وہ اپنے ہی اگاتے کرنا اس کی مدد سب سے بہتر طریقہ ممکن حکمت عملی. 

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France avalanche: Quatre tués à la station de ski de Tignes

Au moins quatre personnes sont mortes dans une avalanche dans une station de ski de Tignes, dans le sud-est de la France, disent les sauveteurs.
Un groupe de neuf personnes a été enterré après que l'avalanche a balayé une zone hors piste de la station, et la police dit que cinq personnes sont toujours portées disparues.
Le groupe serait composé de huit skieurs et d'un guide.
L'avalanche de 400 mètres de large s'est produite à une altitude de 2.100 mètres et a frappé à une période particulièrement occupée pendant les vacances de demi-terme.
Le taux d'alerte d'avalanche lundi à Tignes était de trois sur cinq, a annoncé la France Dauphine Libere.
Les services de sauvetage ont déployé un hélicoptère pour aider à la recherche des skieurs disparus.

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UN: Coalition air raids kill 18 civilians in Helmand

UN inquiry concludes air strikes in Helmand's Sangin district killed at least 18 civilians, mostly women and children.

Civilians, mostly women and children, were killed last week in air raids by coalition forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, an initial United Nations inquiry suggested.

On Thursday and Friday, as many as 18 civilians died in air strikes in Helmand's Sangin district, according to a statement released by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on Sunday.

The UN said the strikes had been conducted by "international military forces", but only US aircraft have been involved in recent coalition strikes, according to US military officials.

Afghan officials and local residents told Al Jazeera that the death toll was higher than 18.

"The jets arrived at around 3am (local time) on Friday and started bombing indiscriminately in a heavy residential area. I lost my aunt, two cousins and a nephew in the strikes," Mullah Fazal Ahmed told Al Jazeera.

"Six others in my family were wounded," said Ahmed, adding that the bombardment lasted for up to half an hour.

"Most of them who were pulled out of the rubble were bodies of women and children, as young as five-years-old."

US military officials said their aircraft conducted around 30 air raids in Helmand in the past week. NATO's Resolute Support mission has initiated an inquiry into the incident.

"We are investigating the allegations, but let me tell you, no one has reached any final conclusion on this incident in Helmand," Brigadier General Charles Cleveland, a US army spokesman in Afghanistan told Al Jazeera.

"We all know that there is a fight against the Taliban going on in Sangin for the past 10 days, there are mortars being fired by the Taliban and Afghan forces are fighting them, so its not at all clear at the moment how these civilians were killed."

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The NATO-led military mission has deployed hundreds of troops to Helmand in a bid to help Afghan security forces in their war against Taliban fighters.

Civilian casualties from both American and Afghan air strikes increased dramatically last year, according to the UN's most recent report on threats to civilians.

At least 891 civilians were killed or injured in 2016, a figure highest in areas outside of Kabul.

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سیب حرام ہے

یہ ایک شخص کی آب بیتی ہے جو کہتا ہے کہ:میں مسجد میں تحیتہ المسجد ادا کر رہا تھا کہ سگریٹ کی ناگوار بدبو نے مجھے بے چین کر کے رکھ دیا،خشوع و خضوع قائم رکھنا تو بعد کی بات تھی بدبو کی شدت سے نماز پوری کرنا بھی محال لگ رہا تھا۔سلام پھیر کر دیکھا تو قریب ہی ایک آدمی نماز ادا کر رہا تھا۔ سگریٹ نوشی کی کثرت سے اس کے ہونٹ سیاہ پڑ چکے تھے۔میں نے سوچا یہ نماز سے فارغ ہو چکے تو اس سے بات کرونگا، شاید میری نصیحت سے اس پر کوئی مثبت اثر پڑ جائے۔

لیکن مجھے اس وقت حیرت کا سامنا کرنا پڑا جب اس شخص کے ساتھ بیٹھے ایک نوجوان نے اسکی نماز سے فراغت پرمجھ سے پہلے ہی اس سے گفتگو کرنا شروع کی، سننے کیلئے میں نے بھی کان لگائے تو کچھ اس قسم کی بات چیت ہو رہی تھی:نوجوان: السلام و علیکم، چچا آپ کون ہیں؟ وہ آدمی: میں۔۔۔۔۔ ہوں۔نوجوان: چچا، کیا آپ نے شیخ عبدا لحمید کشک کا نام سنا ہے؟ وہ آدمی: جی، میں جانتا ہوں انہیں۔نوجوان: اچھا تو آپ شیخ جاد الحق کو بھی جانتے ہونگے؟ وہ آدمی: جی، میں انہیں بھی جانتا ہوں۔نوجوان: تو آپ شیخ محمد الغزالی کو بھی جانتے ہیں؟ وہ آدمی: جی، میں انہیں بھی اچھی طرح جانتا ہوں۔نوجوان: تو پھر آپ ان کی کیسٹیں اور فتاویٰ جات بھی سنتے ہونگے ناں؟وہ آدمی: جی، میں ان کی کیسٹیں بھی سنتا ہوں اور انکے فتاویٰ جات بھی۔نوجوان: آپ جانتے ہیں ناں یہ سارے شیوخ سگریٹ کو حرام کہتے ہیں، تو پھر آپ کیوں پیتے ہیں سگریٹ؟وہ آدمی: (جو اب اس ساری گفتگو سے بیزاری سی محسوس کر رہا تھا) نہیں سگریٹ نوشی حرام نہیں ہے۔نوجوان: نہیں، حرام ہے، اللہ تعالیٰ کا ارشاد بھی تو یہی ہے ناں کہ (پلید چیزوں کو تم پر حرام کر دیا گیا ہے)۔کیا کبھی سگریٹ شروع کرتے وقت آپ نے بسم اللہ پڑھی ہے یا سگریٹ ختم ہونے پر الحمدللہ کہی ہے؟وہ آدمی: (تقریبا بھناتے ہوئے) مجھے قرآن شریف کی ایک آیت دکھا دو جس میں کہا گیا ہو کہ(ویحرم علیکم الدخان) اور ہم نے تم پر سگریٹ نوشی حرام قرار دی ہے۔

نوجوان: چچا یقین کیجیئے اسلام میں سگریٹ نوشی بالکل ویسے ہی حرام ہے جس طرح سیب حرام ہے۔اس آدمی کا صبر کا پیمانہ لبریز ہی ہو چکا تھا، جھلاتے ہوئے خونخوار لہجے میں بولااوئے لڑکے، تو ہوتا کون ہے کہ جس چیز کو چاہے حرام قرار دے اور جس چیز کو چاہے حلال قرار دیدے؟وہ نوجوان نہایت ہی تحمل سے بولا کہ پھر لایئے اک آیت جس میں لکھا ہو کہ(ویحل لکم التفاح) اور ہم نے تم پر سیب کو حلال کر دیا ہے۔نوجوان کی گفتگو نے اس آدمی کو ششدر ہی کر کے رکھ دیا تھا، ایسا لگ رہا تھا کہ اب رویا کہ تب،مسجد میں اقامت کی آواز گونج اٹھی تھی اور لوگ جماعت کیلیئے کھڑے ہو رہے تھے۔نماز کے بعد وہ آدمی پھر اس نوجوان کی طرف متوجہ ہوا اور بولادیکھو نوجوان، میں اللہ کی قسم کھا کر کہتا ہوں کہ آئندہ کبھی سگریٹ کو ہاتھ نہیں لگا ئوں گا۔

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DPP moves toward expelling Taipei city councilor Tung

The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Central Standing Committee yesterday recommended expelling Taipei City Councilor Tung Chung-yan (童仲彥) for damaging the party’s reputation amid accusations domestic violence and infidelity against him.
It forwarded the recommendation to the DPP Central Evaluation Committee, which is to meet on Feb. 22, DPP spokesperson Wang Min-sheng (王閔生) said.
“The review was swift, with committee members unanimously agreeing on the expulsion proposal,” Wang said.
If Tung is expelled, he would be barred from the party for five years. If he were later allowed to rejoin the party, he would not be allowed to participate in public or party elections for two years.
Tung’s wife, Lee Hsiu-huan (李秀環), last month accused him of long-term domestic violence and infidelity, with Chinese-language Next Magazine publishing photographs of her injuries.
Media reports have said that Tung’s former office director, Chiu Hui-mei (邱惠美), was his mistress.
Tung later admitted to the accusations, including his relationship with Chiu, while announcing on Facebook that he would voluntarily withdraw from the party.
The DPP’s Taipei chapter on Monday confirmed his deregistration.
Expulsion is the most severe punishment that can be imposed on a party member, while members who voluntarily withdraw from the DPP can rejoin the party after two years.
“I am grateful for the DPP’s support. I will continue my work with a [renewed] mindset and reflect on and amend my mistakes,” Tung said.
Thanking the 20,000 voters who voted for him, Tung said he would redouble his efforts to supervise the city government.

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The President Of Italy’s Chamber Of Deputies Is Launching A Campaign Against Fake News

In an exclusive interview, Laura Boldrini, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, told BuzzFeed News why she is fighting back against disinformation and violent abuse.

The surge in fake news is acting as a gateway to online hate and risks “short-circuiting democracies”, Laura Boldrini, the president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, has warned in an interview with BuzzFeed News.
Boldrini, the politically neutral speaker of the lower house of Italy’s parliament, is launching a campaign this week to raise awareness about disinformation and its consequences. She has repeatedly been on the receiving end of violent online abuse threatening her with rape and murder.
“Fake news has always existed, but online its impact is potentially boundless,” she told BuzzFeed News. “The most worrying aspect is that fake news, whether it’s driven by profit or as political propaganda, is all too often an antechamber to hate.
“It is the combination between fake news that targets adversaries, and the hate this enables, that risk short-circuiting our democracies. It not only pollutes the debate, but it may distort how consensus is built.”
She added: “And in some cases, like the murder of the young Labour MP Jo Cox, the line between online and offline violence becomes very thin.”
Boldrini is keen to stress that the campaign she is launching is not political, nor directed at any one party, but born out of concern that in the longer term, fake news and disinformation risk undermining the foundations of a functioning democracy.
“Being informed is a right, while being misinformed is dangerous,” she said. “It is an issue that concerns every citizen and touches upon a fundamental democratic principle: the right to correct information. Fake news stories are not just some prank – they can cause real damage.
“Just think about stories that refer to vaccinating children, or improvised medical treatments, or online frauds. All too often lies presented as news only aim to delegitimise and throw mud at the reputation of people and institutions.”
“This problem has nothing to do with freedom of expression. It would be like saying you can sell stale meat or contaminated water because we’re in a free market,” she said, adding that “when a post claiming the state manipulates information about the intensity of an earthquake goes viral, and thousands of people believe it, it creates social tension and panic. The aim of this campaign is to highlight the scale of these issues because they should not be underestimated.”

Fighting against online hate is a battle Boldrini takes to heart. Last November, on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, she shared on Facebook and Twitter some examples of the abuse she regularly receives online.
“Boldrini you are a whore”, “why hasn’t anyone killed this terrorist???”, “I would slap your face with my cock!!!”, and “I want to cut open your brain and piss in it” were just some of the messages she received.
Boldrini captioned her tweet with a simple question: “Do you believe this is freedom of expression?”

“I chose that very specific day to name and shame some of the authors of the violent messages, threats, and sexual innuendo that I constantly receive on my social media profiles every single day,” she told BuzzFeed News.
“I want to say this very clearly because it is a point that I take to heart: It is unacceptable that women, after numerous battles to defend our rights and gain respect, now find ourselves constantly insulted and abused online, often having to face a choice: accept this kind of humiliation or stay away from the internet. I did it for the many women who silently accept all this simply because they don’t have the strength or profile to speak out.”
Boldrini said social media platforms such as Facebook need to do more, especially when it comes to hateful messages that are being shared on their platforms.
“If a newspaper publishes a fake news story that Facebook then amplifies, the initial responsibility is of course the newspaper’s,” she said. “It should verify its sources. That said, Facebook needs to do more than just limit itself to proclamations and good intentions.”
Boldrini cited the story of a young woman called Arianna Drago that she shared on Facebook two weeks earlier: “She had the courage to publish comments that were being made in private Facebook groups about young women. The comments were appalling, sexual, and vulgar, and made about women whose photos were being shared, without their knowledge, in these groups.
“Drago reported the groups to Facebook. The social network deleted her account, and left the groups open. Incredulous by what happened, she wrote to me, and I shared her story and complaint.”

According to an Italian newspaper, Facebook has since apologised. As well as reinstating Drago’s account, which it claims was deactivated by mistake, the company said it had deleted the groups in question.
But Boldrini said many violent groups still exist on the site.
“My question is this: What are Facebook’s policies? Whose side is Facebook on? It is sad and worrying that the company of a young entrepreneur like Mark Zuckerberg, who claims to defend the rights of an open society where nobody is discriminated against, deletes a profile like Arianna’s but allows such obscenity, sexism and misogyny, which scars the dignity of women, to exist on its website.”
Before entering parliament in 2013, Boldrini worked at the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Food and Agriculture Organization. She has been deployed on missions in former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Mozambique, Angola, and Rwanda.
As in the US, where a BuzzFeed News analysis found that the most viral fake election news stories outperformed real news on Facebook, fake news came to prominence in Italy during a recent election. In the wake of a constitutional referendum last December than cost the then prime minister Matteo Renzi his job, one analysis found that among the most shared referendum news stories many of the top articles were fake news.
Boldrini’s campaign, “Basta Bufale” (“Enough with the fake news”), is being launched at a time when trust in traditional parties, institutions, and media in Italy is lower than elsewhere in Europe and public opinion in the country is increasingly polarised.
“It is true that in Italy, like in many other countries, there is widespread distrust towards institutions and politics,” Boldrini said. “At the same time, an increasing number of people tend to not trust traditional news sources. Online, many seek to confirm whatever their bias may be, often ignoring facts. All this leads to an increasingly polarised debate and echo chambers where everyone just shouts and doesn’t listen to other points of view.
“In this context, the risk is that people share fake news that aligns to their world view, and everyone just shouts over each other. There is no dialogue or a real exchange of opinions. This worries me greatly because it risks quashing democratic confrontation.”
Last month, the co-founder of the anti-establishment and populist Five Star Movement (M5S) Beppe Grillo (who like Donald Trump is constantly accusing mainstream media of producing fake news), called on the creation of a jury of randomly selected members of the public to judge the veracity of news stories published by the media. Grillo and the M5S have also accused anyone attempting to tackle or disincentive disinformation and fake news as wanting to clamp down on freedom of expression.
Meanwhile, others in Italy have suggested that regulation, and possibly state intervention, is the solution to beating fake news.
Boldrini rejected both ideas: “I don’t know if fake news had an impact on the outcome of the US election, but I do believe that before any legislative solution is adopted, we should give people the opportunity to understand the issue, and provide them with the necessary tools. The answer should not be a ‘state authority against fake news’, nor a ‘people’s tribunal’, as some have suggested in Italy.”

Separate analysis published by BuzzFeed News last year revealed that among those publishing and sharing fake news and hyperpartisan content in Italy are websites and social media accounts directly linked to the M5S.
Though she doesn’t name any specific political party, the speaker of the chamber claims that “political parties that spread fake news and disinformation demonstrate that they are prepared to do anything and have no ethical qualms. Untruths and deception as political tools are the worst kind of politics.”
Beyond the appeal, Boldrini’s broader effort to battle disinformation is a focus on education.
“We need to start from schools and universities, and insist on a formation that helps young people to distinguish between credible sources and less reliable ones, as well as help to develop critical judgment and a verification culture and skills-set,” Boldrini said, citing an “internet committee” of MPs and experts that she has set up. Among its tasks: MPs and experts are going into schools across the country to teach students and teachers how to use the internet more responsibly.

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Ancient undersea landslide discovered in Australia

The Gloria Knolls Slide is at least 300,000 years old and 32 cubic km in volume, or 30 times the size of Uluru, a rock landmark in central Australia.
The landslide could also have triggered a tsunami, the international team says.
The scientists said debris from the landslide, found as deep as 1,350m (4,430ft) below the sea, also provided clues about hidden marine life.
The team made the discovery while conducting three-dimensional mapping of ancient reefs in the Queensland Trough, a vast basin adjoining the Great Barrier Reef.
Coral fossils
Dr Robin Beaman, from Queensland's James Cook University, said the researchers located a cluster of hills, or knolls, more than 1,100m beneath the surface.
"What we discovered was the smoking gun," he told the BBC.
"It was quite clear that those knolls were the remains of a very large undersea landslide that had occurred some time ago."
That time was at least 300,000 years ago, he said, because coral fossils collected from the knolls went back that far, and the landslide would have predated them.
He described it as "catastrophic collapse" because the knolls - as long as 3.6km (2.2 miles) - were found 30km from their original location.
Other evidence of the landslide would have been buried over time, he said.

The research, published in the journal Marine Geology, said the landslide had the potential to cause a large tsunami.
Although modelling had put its elevation as high as 27m, the impact of a tsunami would have been significantly offset by the presence of coral reefs.
"The Great Barrier Reef acts like a giant porous breakwater to reduce the energy [of ocean swell]," said Dr Beaman. "If it was in existence at the time of this landslide, it would have done a similar job."
He said future risk to the Queensland coast appeared unlikely because it was a "a very old event", but it was a worthy topic for future research.
Deep marine life
The researchers found deep marine life including cold-water corals, molluscs and barnacles were thriving on the knolls.
The corals, unlike their shallow reef counterparts, could survive in 4C temperatures with no sunlight, Dr Beaman said.
He said possibilities for future research were exciting.
"That really is the next frontier," he said.
"We probably have a bit of an idea of what's living up to 200m or 300m [deep], but beyond that, very few people have done much work in this area."
The research was a collaboration between James Cook University, University of Sydney, University of Granada, University of Edinburgh and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation.

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Strong 6.3 quake strikes off coast of Balochistan

The shallow quake struck at 3:03 am (2203 GMT), with an epicentre just 23 kilometres (14 miles) southwest of Pasni, the USGS said.

According to Geo News, Gwadar, Turbat and others areas of the province were jolted by the earthquake. No loss of life or damage to property has been reported so far.

Last April, a large 6.6-magnitude quake struck neighbouring northeastern Afghanistan, rattling parts of South Asia and killing at least six Pakistanis.

In October 2015, a 7.5-magnitude quake in Pakistan and Afghanistan killed almost 400 people, flattening buildings in rugged terrain that impeded relief efforts.

Pakistan straddles part of the boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates meet, making the country susceptible to earthquakes.

It was hit by a 7.6-magnitude quake on October 8, 2005 that killed more than 73,000 people and left about 3.5 million homeless, mainly in Kashmir.

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Afghan Red Cross workers 'killed by IS'

The workers were shot dead in the Qush Tepa area, the governor told the BBC.
Two others are unaccounted for, feared abducted by the group, he said. The ICRC confirmed the deaths but said it did not know who had killed its staff.
IS has been active in Afghanistan since 2015, claiming recent attacks in the east and Kabul.
There was no immediate claim for the attack in Jowzjan.
The ICRC said in a tweet that it was "shocked and devastated" by the news. The organisation's head, Peter Maurer, said it was a deliberate attack on his staff which "we condemn in the strongest possible terms".
The ICRC has had an uninterrupted presence in Afghanistan for 30 years and says it will now assess its operations in the country.
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Government officials said the Red Cross staff were transporting supplies including livestock materials to areas affected by recent deadly snowstorms when their convoy was attacked.
Jowzjan governor Lutfullah Azizi confirmed to the BBC that all six employees who were killed were Afghan.
Provincial police chief Rahmatullah Turkistani told the Reuters news agency that the bodies of the six workers had been taken to the provincial capital Sheberghan, and a search had begun to find the two ICRC employees who had not been accounted for.
Taliban militants have also targeted the Red Cross in the past - its office in Jalalabad was attacked in 2013.

IS announced it was expanding into Afghanistan in January 2015 and has secured footholds in parts of eastern Nangarhar province, on the border with Pakistan.
But Afghan troops and the Taliban have prevented them from moving permanently beyond that, observers say.
Since mid-2016 the group appears to have switched tactics, launching a series of deadly attacks against Shia Muslims and others in Kabul and bombing a mosque in the northern province of Balkh, neighbouring Jowzjan, in October.
On Wednesday, IS said it had carried out an attack at the Supreme Court in Kabul a day earlier, killing at least 20 people.

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Trump travel ban: Tough questions in US appeals court hearing

A US appeals court has posed tough questions at those challenging and defending President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban.
The order banned entry for all refugees and visitors from seven mainly Muslim nations, until it was halted last week.
The three-judge panel raised questions over the limits on the president's power and Mr Trump's evidence to link the seven countries to terrorism.
But it also asked whether the measure could be considered anti-Muslim.
A decision from the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, in San Francisco, is expected later this week. Whatever it decides, the case will probably end up in the Supreme Court.
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There was an hour of oral arguments from both sides on Tuesday.
The Justice Department was first to make its case, urging the appeal judges to reinstate the banning order.
Lawyer August Flentje said Congress had authorised the president to control who can enter the country.
When asked to point to evidence that the seven countries affected - Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen - were linked to terrorism, he said a number of Somalis in the US had been connected to the al-Shabab group.
But at one point Mr Flentje said: "I'm not sure I'm convincing the court."

Then a lawyer representing Washington state told the court that halting the executive order had not harmed the US government.
Solicitor General Noah Purcell said the ban had affected thousands of residents of the state, with students delayed as they tried to come to Washington and others prevented from visiting family abroad.
He also urged the court to serve "as a check on executive abuses."
A Muslim ban or not?
The final minutes of the hearing were spent on whether the travel ban amounted to a shut-out for Muslims, which would be unconstitutional. Judge Richard Clifton asked both sides on the issue, pointing out it affected only 15% of the world's Muslims.
"I have trouble understanding why we're supposed to infer religious animus when in fact the vast majority of Muslims would not be affected," he said.
He also added that the "concern for terrorism from those connected to radical Islamic sects is hard to deny."
A 15-page brief issued by the Justice Department on Monday night argued the executive order was "neutral with respect to religion".

But in court on Tuesday, Mr Purcell cited Mr Trump's campaign statements about a Muslim ban. He also pointed to statements made by one of the president's advisers, Rudy Giuliani, who said he was asked to come up with a way of making a Muslim ban work legally.
Mr Clifton also said the seven countries included in the ban were identified by the Obama administration and Congress as deserving of visa restrictions, based on a terror threat.
He asked: "Do you assert that that decision by the previous administration and Congress as religiously motivated?"
No, Mr Purcell answered, but President Trump had called for a complete ban and although this was not a complete ban, it was discriminatory.
What did the executive order do?
Its main components were:
nationals from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen - even those with visas - banned from entering the US;
a temporary ban on all refugee admissions;
the reprioritisation of minority religion (interpreted to mean Christian) refugee claims;
a ban on all Syrian refugees;
a cap on total annual refugee admissions to the US of 50,000.
It came into force on 27 January and caused some confusion at US and foreign airports because people were stopped from boarding planes or prevented from entering the US, and sent home.
There was strong condemnation and it was halted last Friday by a federal judge in Washington state.
As a result, people from the seven countries with valid visas were able to travel to the US again.
Washington state, Minnesota and other states want the appeals court in San Francisco to permit the temporary restraining order to stand as their lawsuit works its way through the courts.
Polls suggest that US public opinion is sharply divided on the issue.

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