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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Twitter Suspended/Blocked/Banned in Pakistan 2012

5/20/2012 Posted by Unknown
Filed Under: news, twitter access denied, Twitter banned in Pakistan, twitter suspended

Twitter is very popular in Pakistan and is also used by many prominent politicians and law-makers.Twitter is worlds largest social network along with facebook, On Sunday, May 20,2012 it is banned/suspended in Pakistan .Twitter is suspended for unknown time period, This is because of the contests which start every year on facebook and twitter, in which they share abusive content against Islam, which hurts the feelings of Muslims as it is against our Prophet (SAW). So Pakistani authorities have ordered ISPs to block access to Twitter.

Why?

Yaseen said "Facebook agreed to address Pakistan’s concerns about the competition, but officials have failed to get Twitter to do the same.We have been negotiating with them until last night, but they did not agree to remove the stuff, so we had to block it,”

"Instructions to block the site came from Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology", said Yaseen.

"The ministry officials are still trying to make them (Twitter) agree, and once they remove that stuff, the site will be unblocked,” said Yaseen.

According to the ministry of information technology, the website was banned due to blasphemous and inflammatory content. Calls for particiaption in inflammatory contests were being made on Twitter and it was due to this that such a step was taken.

The Pakistani Government have stated that they would keep monitoring other sites too, for anti-Islamic content.
IT has also directed the PTA to remain alert and watchful and block all links displaying profane caricatures immediately. Ministry of IT has requested the public at large to contact a dedicated Telephone No 0800-5505 and e-mail address: complaint@pta.gov.pk , to transmit necessary information, should anything to the effect of objectionable caricature get displayed/ propagated at any website.