Islamabad: The Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights (HRC) in Pakistan has unanimously passed a resolution to restore YouTube in Pakistan here on Monday.
The resolution aforesaid that there was no excuse for the govt. to take care of its ban on YouTube because the blasphemy content still accessible on alternative social websites.
The HRC has quoted Asian nation Telecommunication Authority (PTA) relating to the issued that the PTA conjointly demanded to get rid of ban on video sharing web site.
The HRC more supplemental that the issued are going to be raised nowadays within the current session of higher house (Senate).
The video-sharing web site has been blocked in Asian nation since Sep 2012 over its failure to require down the “Innocence of Muslims” moving picture that sparked furious protests round the world.
Religion in Asian nation, wherever ninety seven per cent of the population square measure Muslims, may be a terribly sensitive topic and perceived insults to the religion will spark violent reactions.
In November 2011 the telecommunications authority tried to ban early one,700 “obscene” words from text messages, including innocuous terms like “lotion”, “athlete’s foot” and “idiot”.
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