ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has disbanded Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) for content management on internet and granted these powers to regulator— PTA— with the mandate to devise effective mechanism in this regard. In the wake of blockage of YouTube in Pakistan after unwarranted release of blasphemous filmRead More →
Pakistan Government devise a governance policy, which simultaneously addresses cyber security issues. Mushahid Saudi Arabia did not block Youtube, but it is blocked since last three years in Pakistan Cyberspace is an important topic and Pakistan is a major partner in the global society. Netherlands Ambassador ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORTRead More →
LAHORE ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) The Lahore High Court division bench disposed off the petition in the light of Supreme Court order in the regards of Websites matter. On Thursday The director General PTA appear in court and stated that we have no other choice except ban the sites asRead More →
NEW DELHI (MEDIA) Even as the ban on YouTube in Pakistan is expected to continue with the government unrelenting, the Sindh High Court has issued notices to the information technology secretary, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman and other concerned authorities. The notices are on a petition challenging the banRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Under the order of Honorable High Court, the Minister of State for IT Mrs. Anusha Rahman convened a meeting of a committee of the technical experts constituted by the Lahore High Court to evolve a joint strategy for blocking controversial content over Youtube. Federal SecretaryRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) The Senate’s standing committee on Human Rights on Monday approved a resolution that seeks to unblock the popular video-sharing website Youtube in Pakistan. The video-sharing website has been blocked in Pakistan since September 2012 over its failure to take down the blasphemous “Innocence of Muslims” movieRead More →
ISLAMABAD (BMZ REPORT ) Leader of the opposition, Syed Khurshid Shah, Senator Farhatullah Babar, MNA Shazia Marri along with representatives of civil society group “Bolo Bhi” (working on internet rights advocacy) held a press conference to urge for the lifting of the ban on YouTube. This was in reference to Ms. Marri tabling a resolution in theRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( MEDIA ) The treasury members of the National Assembly (NA) on Tuesday opposed a resolution demanding the lifting of the ban on YouTube while another resolution, seeking an improvement and regulation in the curriculum of religious seminaries, was passed in the House. Both resolutions were tabled by PakistanRead More →
SAN FRANCISCO (MEDIA) Google urged a US appeals court to let it repost an anti-Islamic movie on YouTube, pending a re-hearing of the copyright case that got it removed. The 2012 appearance of “Innocence of Muslims” on Google’s video-sharing site provoked deadly violence, but the current legal case against itRead More →
SAN FRANCISCO ( MEDIA ) A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday ordered Google Inc to remove from its YouTube video-sharing website an anti-Islamic film that had sparked protests across the Muslim world. The decision by a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San FranciscoRead More →
LAHORE: A Pakistani court ordered the federal Information Technology minister to appear before it on August 7 and present the government’s “clear response” to a petition challenging the ban on YouTube. A bench of the Lahore High Court summoned the minister and the federal IT secretary after they both failedRead More →
PESHAWAR (MEDIA) The Peshawar High Court (PHC) was told here on Thursday that the government has decided to continue blocking the YouTube in the country out of respect for public sentiments and also due to non-availability of technical solution to block 100 percent any blasphemous content. The Ministry of InformationRead More →