Lahore : As Pakistan today reported yesterday that Lahore high court orders to block facebook in Pakistan permanent on the petition of Azhar Siddique. It is reported earlier by many Pakistani and world wide media that facebook to be BAN in Pakistan without any confirmation from authorities. We recently confirmed from authorities and the guy who filled the petition that Whole Facebook will not to be banned but only the few specific URls / Fan Pages will be blocked due to blasphemous and anti islamic material on Facebook.
This fresh petition in LHC is filed by Muhammad & Ahmad, a public interest litigation firm, through chairman Muhammad Azhar Siddique advocate praying for a permanent ban on access to Facebook for hosting a fresh blasphemous caricature drawing contest world over under a title “2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day on May 20, 2011″
Update:
We just got confirmation from PTA officials that they have not received any such order, at least as of now, for Facebook blockade.
Update 2:
At least three ministry of telecom and information technology officials have confirmed us that ministry hasn’t received any order from Lahore High Court regarding facebook ban.
Update 3:
Rabia Mehmood, a reporter for Express 24/7 claims to have spoken with Azhar Siddique – the guy who has filed the petition – and he says that LHC has ordered to ban only specific URLs/fan pages that contain blasphemous content and not the whole Facebook.
This marks another story of Pakistan Today bouncing badly.
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