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Pakistan blocks YouTube over Blasphemous Material

Posted on 20 May 2010 by PakBee - Total hits: 21,170

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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube in a bid to contain blasphemous material, officials said on Thursday.

The blockade came hours after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to stop access to social network Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) in gross violation of fundamental human rights pertaining to one’s religion.

Wahaj-us-Siraj, the CEO of Nayatel, an Internet service provider, said PTA issued an order late on Wednesday seeking an “immediate” blockade of YouTube.

“It was a serious instruction as they wanted us to do it quickly and let them know after that,” he said while talking to a UK-based news agency.

YouTube was also blocked in the Muslim country in 2007 for about a year for what it called un-Islamic videos.

A PTA official, who declined to be identified, said the action was taken after the authority determined that some sacrilegious caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad were transferred from Facebook to YouTube.

Representation of any prophet is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous in Islam, let alone the caricature or cartoon of these divine personages.

Siraj said the blocking of the two websites would cut up to 25 percent of total Internet traffic in Pakistan.

“It’ll have an impact on the overall Internet traffic as they eat up 20 to 25 percent of the country’s total 65 giga-bytes traffic,” he said.

Publications of similar cartoons in Danish newspapers in 2005 sparked deadly protests in Muslim countries. Around 50 people were killed during violent protests in Muslim countries in 2006 over the cartoons, five of them in Pakistan.

Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Denmark’s embassy in Islamabad in 2008, killing six people, saying it was in revenge for publication of the caricatures.



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5 Responses to “Pakistan blocks YouTube over Blasphemous Material”

  1. 4
    Bilal Tahir Says:

    join pakrock.ning.com for prophet SAWW

  2. 3
    Shams Ul Haque Says:

    well yeah man why are they blocking youtube ???? :s
    there’s no reason!!!

  3. 2
    Eusaf Yaqub Says:

    WTF WHY THE FUCK WILL THEY BLOCK YOUTUBE … MORONS FUCKING WANT TO GET ANTI PPP and other PARTIES VIDEOS REMOVED … AND IF THERE ARE VIDEOS BLOCK THEM WHY FUCKING BLOCK THE MOST IMPORTANT WEBSITE … IM PLANNING TO GET RID OF MY INTERNET !

  4. 1
    Shehryar Durrani Says:

    I woke up this morning to see my channel and I was all like wtf??!! youtube is blocked!?

    So you’re saying that blocking the entire youtube will solve the problem for you? Well screw you up your azz.

    Thanks to you guys Pakistan is now one more step back. I’m a pakistani, but now im starting to hate this country so much. I hope you all can go and DIE!!!!!!

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