Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday criticized Sindh High Court's (SHC) verdict to ban TikTok across Pakistan till July 8, calling it "judicial activism".

Taking to Twitter, Chaudhry said that "Pakistan will never come out of its economic crisis if judicial reforms are not undertaken."

"I'm bewildered after reading yesterday's verdicts on suspension of TikTok and the removal of the NBP president, [and wondering:] what are our courts doing?" the federal minister added.

He further said, "the country is already bearing the loss of billions of dollars because of judicial activism."

Fawad's comment came after the Sindh high court issued an order Monday to suspend the video-sharing app across Pakistan till July 8. It is pertinent to mention that the app was banned once before and the restrictions were only removed three months ago.

SHC, in its verdict, had asked the attorney general of Pakistan to get the app suspended after hearing a petition against the app.

The petitioner in his plea had said that the app should be banned because users were sharing 'immoral and unIslamic' content on the platform.