The newly formed government of Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML N) is considering imposing a complete ban on all social media platforms in the country. During a meeting with senior journalists, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ensured that the PML N government will not promulgate any law to hurt ...

ISLAMABAD – Over the issue of Social media ban for government employees, IHC announces verdict over the petition. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has dismissed a petition filed against the ban on usage of social media by the government employees. The IHC Chief Justice, Athar Minallah, presided ...

Sri Lanka is likely to lift a ban on social media networks this week, a government minister said on Tuesday, almost a week after blocking access to prevent the spread of communal violence. At least two people were killed in clashes in early March when Sinhalese Buddhists, angered by a killing of a ...

COLOMBO - In Sri Lanka, authorities have shut down social media to control violence against the Muslim minority. The government said some of the violence has been instigated over social media with postings appearing on Facebook threatening more attacks against the minority. It said Facebook, ...

SRINAGAR – Indian government has removed the ban on social media sites in the Indian Occupied Kashmir.The Jammu and Kashmir government has lifted ban on 22 social networking sites such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter after a month.The Indian government had imposed ban on April 26 aimed at ...

Kashmiri youth has developed an app on Android to compensate for Indian ban on social media in the occupied valley and it already as thousands of users within a week.Three weeks after India banned around 22 social media platforms including Facebook, Whatsapp and Twitter in held-Kashmir, 16-year-old ...

Two United Nations (UN) special rapporteurs are urging the Indian government to lift a ban on social media sites and mobile internet service in the India-held portion of Kashmir.The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression and the special rapporteur on the situation of human ...

LAHORE – Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday has strictly ordered information ministry to remove blasphemous content from social media within four months.Justice Athar Mahmood heard the case during which the petitioner told the court that profane material has not been deleted from the social media ...

NEW YORK: (APP) The Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent watchdog body, has called on authorities in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir to stop harassing and obstructing the media, and lift the ban on newspaper operations. The ban on newspapers came on top of the shutdown of cable TV ...

LONDON: MQM stages two days hunger strike in front of 10 Downing Street in london against media ban on party Chief Altaf Hussain. Lahore High Court LHC banned Altaf Hussain on media in September last year on his alleged statement against the state institutions. MQM leaders, children and women ...