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India-Pakistan
Facebook blocks live streaming of PBC news bulletins over Kashmir coverage
2019-12-31
[DAWN] Facebook has blocked live streaming of the Pakistain Broadcasting Corporation's (PBC) news bulletins for highlighting Indian atrocities in occupied Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, Radio Pakistain reported on Monday.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
temporary arrangements have been made to continue live streaming of Radio Pakistain's bulletins on YouTube, the report added.

In its report, Radio Pakistain has included screenshots of earlier warning messages received from the social-media giant, dating back to May, warning the public broadcaster of violating "community standards on dangerous individuals and organizations".

Specifically, these posts were from news stories about the death anniversary of Hizbul Mujahideen
...Party of Holy Warriors, founded by Muhammad Ahsan Dar in September 1989. One of the Pak sock puppets waging jihad in Indian Kashmir. It was originally organized as the armed wing of Jamaat-e-Islami. In 1990, Dar declared Hizbul as the sword arm of Jamaat. Hizbul murdered many of the pro-independence intelligentsia in Kashmir. After the organization was taken over by Syed Salahuddin Dar and several other ex-Hizb leaders were assassinated between 2001 and 2003...
leader Burhan Wani in July and the curfew imposed after the death of Zakir Musa, also a Hizbul Mujahideen commander, in May.

Addressing a news conference in Islamabad on Monday, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan stated that Pakistain has to move away from international [social media] platforms in order to become more self-reliant.

Talking about Kashmir, she said: "As we have seen, every time we try to highlight human rights
...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions...
violations on social media platforms, such as Facebook, the accounts are suspended".

"We have raised our voices against this before and will do so again in the future and will have those accounts restored," she added.

Posted by:Fred

#2  Pakiland should block Fakebook in it's country then forever. Tit for tat I think they call it.
Posted by: jpal   2019-12-31 17:53  

#1  .
Posted by: John Frum   2019-12-31 15:59  

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