LAHORE : The Ministry of Communication has blocked all the links of Facebook, holding a competition of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), Aaj News reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, Islamic Lawyers Movement filed the petition in Lahore High Court (LHC) through Chaudhry Zulfiqar advocate, who stated that under the law no practice against Islam could be allowed in the country.

He told the court that the website, having various features against the injunctions of Islam, is banned in various countries.

On Tuesday, LHC issued notice to the Ministry of Communication to submit its reply.

Ministry of Communication told that the link of blasphemous caricatures has been blocked, adding that the website can not be completely banned.

لاہور: لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے فیس بک عارضی طور پر بند کرنے کا حکم دے دیا۔لاہور ہائی کورٹ میں فیس بک پر گستاخانہ خاکوں کے مقابلوں کے خلاف اسلامک لائرز مومنٹ کی جانب سے پٹیشن دائر کی گئی تھی۔درخواست میں موقف اختیار کیا گیا ہے کہ مسلم ممالک نے فیس بک پر پابندی لگا دی ہے لیکن پاکستان میں ابھی تک ویب سائٹ کو بند نہیں کیا گیا جس پر عدالت نے گزشتہ روزنوٹس جاری کرتے ہوئے وزارت مواصلات سے جواب طلب کیاگیاتھا۔ وزارت مواصلات نے آج عدالت کو بتایا کہ فیس بک پر گستاخانہ خاکوں سے متعلق لنک بلاک کردیئے گئے ہیں تاہم فیس بک کو مکمل طور پر بند نہیں کیا جاسکتا۔مگر لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے فیس بک کو عارضی طور پر بند کرنے کا حکم دے دیا۔

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waise site chal rahi hay abhi bhi.. aur khako kay link bhi block nahi kiye gay hain..
jaisi hakoomat hay. wazeer e mawaslat hay...
shame paki gov..

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wow...
http://facebook.com/ (This Site is Restricted )
akhir ho gai,,

hahaha. FB mera account deactivate kernay say pehlay hei block ho gai.. lol

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Facebook kay sirf wo links block kiye hain jo khakon kay mutaliq thay ya poori website block ker de gayee hay.. ?

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nahi poori website block ki hay...

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sukara ha pehli bar aesa hwa ha ..... chalo khud nahi tu court k orders pr he band ker di

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Youtube and Wikipedia also restricted by PTA... wow...

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Wikipedia waise kyoun ki ha wspr bhi kuch ha kya aesa?

GEO Pakistan

Pakistan blocks YouTube over blasphemous material

Updated at: 1200 PST, Thursday, May 20, 2010 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube in a bid to contain blasphemous material, officials said on Thursday. The blockade came hours after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to stop access to social network Facebook indefinitely on Wednesday because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad (Peace be upon him) in gross violation of fundamental human rights pertaining to one’s religion. Wahaj-us-Siraj, the CEO of Nayatel, an Internet service provider, said PTA issued an order late on Wednesday seeking an "immediate" blockade of YouTube. "It was a serious instruction as they wanted us to do it quickly and let them know after that," he said while talking to a UK-based news agency. YouTube was also blocked in the Muslim country in 2007 for about a year for what it called un-Islamic videos. A PTA official, who declined to be identified, said the action was taken after the authority determined that some sacrilegious caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad were transferred from Facebook to YouTube. Representation of any prophet is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous in Islam, let alone the caricature or cartoon of these divine personages. Siraj said the blocking of the two websites would cut up to 25 percent of total Internet traffic in Pakistan. "It'll have an impact on the overall Internet traffic as they eat up 20 to 25 percent of the country's total 65 giga-bytes traffic," he said. Publications of similar cartoons in Danish newspapers in 2005 sparked deadly protests in Muslim countries. Around 50 people were killed during violent protests in Muslim countries in 2006 over the cartoons, five of them in Pakistan. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Denmark's embassy in Islamabad in 2008, killing six people, saying it was in revenge for publication of the caricatures.

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wikipedia per muhammad day ki history etc lika hua hay...
and wahan 24 may tak is article ko edit ke permissions bhi nahi hain...

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laqin waise abhi wikipedia ka tu news mein nahi aeya block kerny ka

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http://simple.wikipedia.org/

yeh chal rahi ha...

or sirf english wikipedia band ha baqi languages mein chal rahi ha wikipedia

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