The government on Friday directed Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to block all the websites having blasphemous content, resulting into blockage of 17 weblinks.
In this regard, the inter-ministerial committee for the evaluation of websites met to evaluate the websites having anti-Islamic content.
The committee also decided to block 17 websites in prescribed manner. It was also decided that vigilance monitoring of 7 other websites be ensured and if any particular link with offensive content appears on, those website these links should be blocked immediately without disturbing the main websites.
Following the directives of the committee, the Ministry of Information Technology directed the PTA to implement the directive without any delay.
Out of the 17 sites, links of four websites have been blocked while the remaining 13 have been fully blocked.
The sites which are under strict monitoring include Yahoo, Google, Amazon, Bing, MSN, Hotmail and Youtube.
However, the committee directed that blocking of e-information genuinely needed for students, researchers should be avoided.