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 9:35 PM
this is really great news its the time to show who v r …..v luv MUHAMMAD
May 19th, 2010 at 7:12 PM
Face book should ban the groups which are about religions so that such thing will never happen again but i think banning complete face book would be more beneficial rather then just banning such things otherwise non-Muslims will find some other ways to disturb Muslims.The face book will suffer huge lose just because of this.
May 19th, 2010 at 5:54 PM
Allah ka Lakh Lakh Shukar Hai!!!
May 19th, 2010 at 5:43 PM
answer for all illiterate people who says banning fb wont solve this problem for ur kind info fb users pay for using fb every time we click, it gives money to them… and if we all stop using this site facebook will face huge loss i suggest PTA to ban it permanently
May 19th, 2010 at 5:33 PM
With great power, comes great responsibility!
According to me, all social networking sites should apply some limits or make some policies so that no one should be able to write or share anything about anyone’s religion or anyone in history.
If this is not controlled, then there will be chaos everywhere. We have so much limited life and we are still fighting over religious issues. No one should be able to make such comments or post anything which is a disgrace for others.
I hope everyone understands and these social networking sites which have become giants in their respective domains should feel the responsibility.
An outstanding step taken by the government of Pakistan. Facebook is banned by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Let’s hope Facebook realize and remove such events/groups from its site.
http://ranahammad.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/goodbye-facebook/
May 19th, 2010 at 5:25 PM
and @ fatima u r saying totly wronggggg u r illiterate i guess so, u dont have any knowledge about islam….and the people who r doing suicide attacks and bomb blasting they are not muslims ok u bloody stupid girl they are non belivers…islam dont allow to kill any human being whether they r muslims or non-mislims…. so shut upppp
May 19th, 2010 at 5:01 PM
Salam to all readers..
facebook is earning 47% from Pak and it will really effect them now. Facebook should be banned fore ever in Pak. at least it will not hurt us. We should made our own communities, sites, and platforms to wake up the muslims in the world.
And Pak u need to wake up. We can Live without forgein help. Think over it.
Takecare
May 19th, 2010 at 4:45 PM
we are very happy on dis act of pta very good decision…we love our NABI PAK S.A.W.W more than anything in dis world…
we dont need fb
and i also agree with hamza he is saying very right we should start our own service just like FaceBook and its a right time to start all muslims speacially pakistanis will join it and it can get popular in 2,3 days….
May 19th, 2010 at 4:27 PM
why facebook is still working in pakistan ????? even after Ban …..
May 19th, 2010 at 4:07 PM
very brave step by PTA …and high court ..and a good step ..we appreciate that 🙂 ….NOW THE FACEBOOK IS COMPLETELY BANNED …