LAHORE: Pakistan Information and Telecom authorities have expressed their failure to block controversial content based sites.
“We can’t give any guarantee that controversial content would not be watched on YouTube,” IT Ministry and Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) said while giving official stance on the issue in Lahore High Court.
“Pakistan has no such technology which could completely block controversial websites,” they further said.
Pakistan has banned the world’s largest video portal in September last year following violent protest over release of blasphemous content on the site. Since then many efforts have been made to open the site, a thing which also has a wide opposition in the country.
While hearing the petition of YouTube opening, Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah observed that YouTube opening lies in technical skills of PTA and the ministry.
He asked the Director General PTA Wasim Tauqeer to had consultative meetings with the petitioner, ministry representatives and IT experts to check whether the country had technical strength to block such sites or not.
The court said that if PTA got failed in submitting technical response then the court would take the decision under constitutional guidelines keeping in view of basic rights and public interest.
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