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| Pakistan court again orders internet blocked |
| 2010-06-24 |
| [Al Arabiya Latest] A Pakistani court ordered restrictions re-imposed on video sharing network YouTube and eight more websites blocked for showing material deemed offensive to Muslims, a lawyer said on Wednesday. The other websites are Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Google, Islam Exposed, In The Name Of Allah, Amazon and Bing. If enforced, all major web-based email services, every major search engine and the top shopping site on the Internet would be blocked in Pakistan. Any representation of the Prophet Mohammad is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by Muslims, who constitute the overwhelming majority in Pakistan A judge in the eastern city of Bahawalpur directed authorities on Tuesday to impose the latest restrictions because the sites contained "blasphemous material against Allah, Prophet Mohammad and the Quran", said Latif ur Rehman, a lawyer who filed the petition seeking the measures. "The court issued the orders after I placed blasphemous material recorded on compact discs from these websites before the court," he told Reuters by telephone. Rehman said the judge, Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu, ordered officials of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to appear before him with all "relevant records" on June 28. "The Ministry of Information and Technology, through its secretary, is directed to issue direction to the chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ... to block the websites mentioned," Rehman said, reading from the court's order. A spokesman for PTA said they had not yet received any instructions from the government to block the sites. An official at the Information Technology ministry said they would comply with the court's written order once they received it. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 No xxxPronxxx sites are affected. Well OK then! |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins**** 2010-06-24 17:48 |
| #7 Just out of curiosity is the average Internet bandwidth in Pakiwakiland enough to support those banded sites? If so what rate does the average user there see? |
| Posted by: 3dc 2010-06-24 17:14 |
| #6 "The Jihadis will scream bloody murder, since they use the Internet for FTFY, OP. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-06-24 15:19 |
| #5 Perhaps it would be a good idea to block all Internet access to Pakistan. The Jihadis will scream bloody murder, since they use the Internet for 90% of their propaganda and 75% of their intel. There's nothing in any of the Pakistani newspapers I can't read in Iranian, Indian, or international newspapers. In fact, building a wall around it and not letting anyone or anything in or out may prove quite enlightening. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-06-24 13:52 |
| #4 For his next feat, Latif will break a window and demand a ban on glass. Seen one muslim supremacist hypocrite, seen them all. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-06-24 11:37 |
| #3 Islam Exposed Another Islam Exposed In the Name of Allah |
| Posted by: Fred 2010-06-24 10:59 |
| #2 surfed over to In the name of allah and Islam exposed with no luck. The former was reported as an attack site (thank you McAfee) and the latter redirected me to Exposed.com, a beauty products website. Looks like they're banned in the United States, too. |
| Posted by: Following the Leader 2010-06-24 10:50 |
| #1 the sites contained "blasphemous material against Allah, Prophet Mohammad and the Quran", said Latif ur Rehman, a lawyer who filed the petition seeking the measures. Anyone who graduates from the third grade automatically becomes a lawyer in this idiotic country! |
| Posted by: Ralphs son Johnnie 2010-06-24 02:54 |