After briefly restoring YouTube earlier in the morning after three
months of ban, Raja Parvez Ashraf, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has
ordered Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block the service again
as anti-Islamic videos were still available and easily accessible on
video sharing website.
ProPakistani was able to confirm this with at least two Pakistani
ISPs who have received directions from PTA for blocking YouTube again in
Pakistan.
PTA had earlier emailed all internet service providers in Pakistan to
lift the ban on YouTube, after which YouTube was reportedly accessible
for majority of internet users in Pakistan.
Sources tell ProPakistani that restoration orders were probably
issued in a hurry without ensuring the complete blockade of blasphemous
content on YouTube. This is probably why PM has ordered to block the
website again.
However, blockade of anti-Islamic content will be worked out again to
restore the website in due course of time, the source opined.
Having said this, market experts are surprized and rather puzzled
over unblocking and then re-blocking the YouTube within 24 hours. They
believe that such hastily and confused decisions will only earn bad
press for the country.
Mr. Rehman Malik, Minister Interior, in his tweets last night, had
hinted the deployment of national URL filtering solution by PTA in near
future, which will help elimination of all blasphemous content on
internet in general and on YouTube in specific.
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