Yosuf Raza Gillani has ordered he Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to lift the ban on Facebook and Youtube. The lifted ban would be encouraged with all those pages blocked with blasphemous content.
The ban on Facebook, Youtube, Flickr and several other 800 sites was done as per respect and protest against the Draw Muhammad Day Contest on these major websites by the Israeli Radical Group.
Though as per now these pages and the contest has completely boycotted by the international Muslims, and yet facebook has also delted the pages and cooperated. Pakistani Government has decided to lift the ban in next few days.
Interior minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday pages containing blasphemous material would remain blocked but the ban on popular sites including Facebook and YouTube would be lifted in the next few days.
“We discussed this matter in the cabinet meeting today. I told my colleagues that blocking the websites was not the right thing,” Malik told AFP.
News Source: AFP News Service.
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