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Friday, November 22, 2024  
19 Jumada Al-Awwal 1446  

Government to censor more websites in Pakistan

In Pakistan National internet filtering and blocking system has planned for blocking undesired, indecent and blasphemous content on the internet.

ICT R&D Funds has sought a mechanism from the private companies in order to block and filter online material in order to making all undesired sites inaccessible and unreachable by internet users in Pakistan

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked 13,000 websites having adult content, whereas it has also blocked thousands of websites with blasphemous content on religion.

The internet access in Pakistan is mostly unrestricted and unfiltered and its traffic mostly come from two IP backbone providers, i.e., PTCL and TWA.