Pak court orders ban on Google, Yahoo, seven other websites

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A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material though officials on Wednesday said they had not received any instruction to block the sites.

Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.

Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by a man named Muhammad Sidiq who claimed these websites were publishing sacrilegious material.

The judge also ordered the PTA chairman to appear in court on June 28 with relevant materials.

Sidiq, in his petition, sought a ban on the websites for publishing blasphemous materials and twisting facts about the Quran. Aslam Dhakkar, head of a local bar association, was quoted as saying that the court had given a historic decision.

However, officials of the PTA said that they had received no instructions to block the websites. They said they had only seen media reports about the court's order.

Wahaj-us-Siraj, a spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan, said his organisation had not received any directions from the PTA to block websites.

Pakistani authorities had blocked popular social networking website Facebook in May over the holding of a competition on blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.

The access to the website was later restored on the orders of the court.
 
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ha ha... gud ea,,, now paki chatters will pay for abusing india on yahoochat rooms ... pak is doomed..
 

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Codename 47
Re: Pak court orders ban on Google, Yahoo, seven other websi

Its much better to have a democratic nation than a dictatorship one.!
Poor Pak people
 

prithvi.k

on off on off......
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they addicted of driving in back gear .....
well its gud they ban it..hope they block whole internet too... Permanent aaaahh I'm lovin it.
 
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