May 19th, 2010

Lahore High Court Orders PTA to Ban Facebook in Pakistan

Today Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to block Facebook till May 31 which encourages members to draw Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) caricatures.

These orders are given by Justice Ejaz Choudhry, after giving order Justice Ejaz Choudhry said that these orders are given to record its protest at international level from the Government of Pakistan.

Chaudhry Zulfiqar Advocate High Court has sign the petition in Lahore High Court and after hearing a petition regarding blasphemous page on Facebook, Mr. Chaudhry said that Facebook hurts the emotions of Muslims all over the world with the publication of said page about blasphemous caricatures but the government became a silent spectator.

PTA has blocked the blasphemous link of Facebook said Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malim. Director Telecom Mudassar Hussain said that there would be great loss after the complete closure of Facebook. Lawyers and civil society representatives protested the statement of Director Telecom.

The government yesterday had directed the PTA on the orders of LHC to block the blasphemous caricatures link on Facebook. After the directive, the PTA took necessary steps and blocked the link on Facebook.

Update:

ISPAK has confirmed that PTA has directed all ISPs to completely ban Facebook till May 31st, 2010.

Update: Micronet sent following email to its customers

Micronet has blocked access to www.facebook.com in compliance with orders of Lahore High Court passed today.

Facebook has been holding a competition to draw caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and has not removed the objectionable hate materials despite thousands of emails from Pakistani facebook community.

This access would remain block till 31 May 2010 or further orders by the Lahore High Court.

Best Regards

Manager
Technical Assistance Center
Micronet Broadband Pvt. Ltd.
Islamabad

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2 Responses to “Lahore High Court Orders PTA to Ban Facebook in Pakistan”

  1. PakBits » One Facebook Two Faces (One is Evil) says:
    May 26, 2010 at 9:51 PM

    [...] had been banned from Facebook and my account had been disabled a night before Facebook was banned in Pakistan. Before all this happened, I visited the blasphemous page “Draw Muhammad [...]

  2. Pakistan is going to ban Google, Yahoo, Hotmail, MSN, Bing, YouTube, Amazon etc | Geo Tau Aisay Pakistan says:
    June 25, 2010 at 4:27 AM

    [...] Unlike Facebook’s ban previous month. This decision of putting ban on search engines by Lahore High Court are not welcomed by the masses. [...]

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