Youtube To Be Unblocked Next Month in Pakistan: Report

Youtube will be unblocked next month Google administration has approached the Ministry of Information Technology in a bid to permanently block the blasphemous content on Youtube, says a report by The Nation. 

Earlier, the Google administration owing to absence of necessary laws and agreements between Pakistan and US declined the request to remove the heinous matter from the website. This time, however, negotiations are said to be fruitful.

IT Ministry has  raised Pakistan’s genuine concern towards the sacrilegious content had persistently followed the issue and seriously took up the matter with US diplomatic level and eventually succeeded to convince the Google administration. Both sides to remove sacrilegious’ content from YouTube on good faith have so far agreed to meet in a video conference next week.

A software to permanently filter the sacrilegious content from the video sharing website -YouTube – would be uploaded under which blasphemous matter would not be shared on the tube, said an official of information technology ministry, adding that the Pakistani authorities had submitted the Supreme Court’s decision to the Google administration pertaining blockage of YouTube in Pakistan