After clear discrimination of Facebook for not banning blasphemous Fan Page, Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom has directed PTA to ban Facebook Page in Pakistan, told us sources close to authority.
A reliable source, who is in direct contact with Secretary MoIT, told ProPakistani that ministry has issued the directive to PTA to ban said blasphemous content in the country.
Ministry of Information Technology directs PTA for banning any URL or whole of website in case of any inappropriate content available on it.
It is yet to be ascertained if the whole Facebook will be banned or just a single URL will be filtered. In both the situations, Step is inline with thousands of Facebook users and according to their urge of boycotting Facebook on May 20th.
It merits mentioning here that a Fan Page on Facebook is encouraging its members to draw Prophet Mohammad’s drawings (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa-aal-hi-Wasallam).
Despite thousands of requests, Facebook didn’t put this page down even it violated Facebook’s own terms of services.
Update: (3:14 PM – May 18, 2010) We have received confirmation from PTA that directive has been issued to all ISPs for blocking a single URL (of the particular Fan Page). Order was issued by Yawar Yasin, Director Enforcement PTA.
PTCL has confirmed the recipient of the order and said that specific URL is in process of being blocked throughout its network.
Update: (8:24 PM – May 18, 2010) Facebook fan page in question is still opening on various ISPs, however, reports are coming that specific URL is inaccessible on selected ISPs. Complete blackout is expected later tonight.
May 19th, 2010 at 12:39 PM
we should boycott the facebook and should deactivate our accounts so the facebook management may know how much it hurts to Muslims.
May 19th, 2010 at 12:31 PM
Yeah…..
Its wrong and what has been done is good..
Although many peoples use facebook But we can’t forgive anyone who makes fun of Islam and Our Beloved Prophet Mohammad’s (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa-aal-hi-Wasallam).
May 19th, 2010 at 12:28 PM
My facebook account is already disabled as a result of upcoming event
May 19th, 2010 at 12:20 PM
yes its better to block that website, great Job from PTA.
May 19th, 2010 at 12:18 PM
wow..
I cant access facebook but i can still watch porn at http://www.redtube.com
amazing….
May 19th, 2010 at 12:00 PM
We(Muslims) shud simply delete our Facebook accounts
May 19th, 2010 at 11:57 AM
Banning Fb wont do any good. The only way to remove the event was to report it to FB. If a certain number of people report something in a short time, facebook blocks it. Its not facebook which is holding the event; these people are just few infidels.
We should answer to these peoples’ queries about Islam and The Holy Prophet SAW. coz their governments have published a very bad image of Islam. if we can defeat these people in discussion, i would call that the True Holy Jihad.
Banning FB will only result in decreased load on FB servers and thats probably good news for FB developers.
May 19th, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters!!!
Facebook should be banned forever in Pakistan & believe me our lives are not incomplete without it. In one of the above post by Mahmoor Tahir, he said banning facebook won’t make any difference to ‘FACEBOOK authorities’ but for sure it will hurt them big time because Pakistan is one of main business stream for them. Nobody can ignore this fact that Facebook is spoiling our youth and together we can make a lot of difference by no using it anymore.
BEST WISHES!!
May 19th, 2010 at 11:41 AM
Masha Allah
Shukur alhumdulillah… A very nice Action taken by PTA.
May Allah Almighty bless them.
But onething more we should do is that.
1- Practice on our releigon ourself (Amal e saleha)
2- And acknowledge other about islam (Da’wah)
JazakAllah u khaira
May 19th, 2010 at 11:36 AM
I highly appreciate our Govt and PTA for this action. There’s no one more respectable for Us then our beloved HOlly Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W). THis time we should deeply think about western Media/Govts and there moves againt Islam and Muslims.
“Facebook should be completely banned in Pakistan forever”.