Pak to lift ban on YouTube, says Malik
29 Dec 2012 6:20 AM IST
Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday said Pakistani authorities would lift a ban on YouTube within 24 hours, over three months after the popular website was blocked so that people could not access clips from an anti-Islam film. Malik announced the government’s plan to lift the ban on YouTube and Twitter on Friday night.
‘I chaired a high level (meeting with) all stakeholders on the (YouTube). (Good) job by PTA (to) block anti-Islamic material! (Please expect YouTube) unblocked in 24 hrs,’ he said in a tweet.
He acknowledged in another tweet that there was a ‘great demand to unblock (YouTube) from all sections of society’, especially users of Twitter. ‘Expect the notification today! Hope u r all happy now,’ he said. Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf had in mid-September directed authorities to block YouTube for hosting ‘blasphemous material’, including clips from the movie ‘Innocence Of Muslims’.
‘I chaired a high level (meeting with) all stakeholders on the (YouTube). (Good) job by PTA (to) block anti-Islamic material! (Please expect YouTube) unblocked in 24 hrs,’ he said in a tweet.
He acknowledged in another tweet that there was a ‘great demand to unblock (YouTube) from all sections of society’, especially users of Twitter. ‘Expect the notification today! Hope u r all happy now,’ he said. Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf had in mid-September directed authorities to block YouTube for hosting ‘blasphemous material’, including clips from the movie ‘Innocence Of Muslims’.
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