ISLAMABAD — Pakistan has ordered a U.S.-based website propagating the faithof Pakistan’s minority Ahmadis shut down over allegedly blasphemouscontent, one of the site’s managers said Thursday.

Harris Zafar said Pakistan’s Telecommunication Authority earlier this monthissued a legal notice for him and fellow American Amjad Mahmood Khan, whoalso manages Trueislam.com, demanding that the site be shut down.

Zafar said the website is based in the U.S., where both he and Khan liveand work, and called Pakistan’s action “a brazen act of suppression offreedom of expression and freedom of religion.”

“All content is U.S. based and all activities are in the U.S. as well,”said Zafar. “There is nothing about Pakistan on the site. ”

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority did not immediately respond to anAP request for comment and Zafar and Khan’s website is not available inPakistan.

Zafar, who lives in Portland, Oregon but has relatives in Pakistan, said inan email to The Associated Press that he and Khan were also threatened witha $3.1 million fine and warned of charges under Pakistan’s controversialblasphemy law, which can carry the death penalty for insulting Islam.

Blasphemy has been a contentious issue in Pakistan where domestic andinternational human rights groups say blasphemy allegations have often beenused to intimidate religious minorities and to settle personal scores.