ISLAMABAD – It has been proposed during a session with the Senate StandingCommittee that social media websites should be blocked throughout thecountry due to blasphemous content.
PTA has now issued a clarification that their chairman has been misquoted,what he actually suggested was that social media websites will beapproached to take down the content as soon as possible.
As for the banning, it was only used as an example by PTA Chairman Maj.Gen. (Retd) Amir Azeem Bajwa while referring to the order issued by SupremeCourt in 2012 which banned YouTube due to caricatures and other blasphemousvideos.
PTA has been working hard to stop child pornography and since 2010, over39,000 links have been blocked. In regards to blasphemous content, PTA hasreceived around 8000 complaints and 40000 websites have been censoredthroughout the country. Due to PTA’s aggressive censoring campaign, thepornography trend in the country is on a decline and even Google hasinquired regarding PTA’s strategy to achieve this.