29 January 2013
Access to Twitter Restored in Pakistan ?
After a ban for a day, amid any possible access of blasphemous
material to Pakistani audience on Draw Mohammad Day, access to micro
blogging website has been restored in Pakistan.
Concerned officials have confirmed ProPakistani that access to
Twitter has restored after they received orders from Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority.
As per reports we are getting, Twitter is now accessible on majority
of ISPs, while the completion of restoration process may take couple of
hours on remaining ISPs.
As we reported earlier, this ban was of temporary nature and was supposed to get lifted after Draw Mohammad Day.
However, as per our sources, ban was lifted before time due to bad
name the incident had earned for Pakistan, especially in foreign media.
Pakistan, earlier in the morning had blocked access to Internet for
Pakistani internet users – fearing that blasphemous material could reach
the users through internet – because organizers of Draw Mohammad Day
for 2012 had plans to share cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (P.B.U.H)
through Twitter, to protest the arrest of Saudi journalist Hamza
Kashgari for writing “insulting” tweets about the Prophet.
PTA,
the regulatory authority for telecom and internet in Pakistan, had
contacted Twitter administration to make necessary arrangements for
blocking access of blasphemous content in Pakistan, to which Twitter
didn’t agree resulting into a ban to website in Pakistan.
In a related news, Dr. Rehman Malik, Interior Minister, is claiming
that the restoration of Twitter should be credited to him. He tweeted
following just minutes ago:
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