*ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocks over 8 lakhpornographic websites across Pakistan.*
*The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocked over 900,000 URLs on theinternet containing pornographic, anti-state, anti-judiciary andblasphemous content, according to a document available.*
According to Section 37 of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016,the internet regulatory authority holds the power to block and removeonline content.
The PTA document stated that at least 11,538 URLs containing anti-statecontent, 6,035 URLs containing anti-judiciary content, 50,331 URLscontaining blasphemous content, 831,362 URLs containing pornographiccontent and 9,127 URLs containing hate speech were blocked by the internetregulatory authority.