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ISLAMABAD:
As protests were held in many parts of Pakistan on Friday against
an anti-Islam film, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that a task
force has been constituted for round the clock supervision of
monitoring and blocking of anti-Islamic material on websites. Talking to media after chairing a high level meeting in Islamabad on
Friday, he said that a high level task force has been constituted that
will supervise the blocking process of the anti-Islamic material, with
the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Information
Technology Ministry having already blocked 122 anti-Islamic sites
including one video clip that was posted on the Internet this month. Providing details of the new steps, Malik said that the team would be
headed by Member (legal) in Ministry of Information Technology while
Member (technical), Director General, Pakistan Telecommunication
Authority (PTA) and Director, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would
be its members. The Committee will meet every week which will be
duly monitored by a team of two Federal Secretaries and Chairman PTA who will keep advising the concerned authorities to enhance the
monitoring system for zero tolerance on the issue. Since the canvas of the internet is too large and needs to be monitored
closely to control such blasphemous, anti-Islamic slogans, videos,
audios and other such material. In view of this, the meeting took some
decisions including that Pakistan would take serious cognisance of any
such detrimental material to Islam and obscene material being
released on the Internet and being replicated in Pakistan. All web designers, web sites, blocked sites, social media are told to
refrain from planting any such material which may hurt the feelings of
Muslims. Violators would be subject to serious action in terms of legal
action. Moreover, it was further decided that a control room under the
supervision of a Director PTA would come into force with immediate
effect to have 24 hours monitoring. It will not only monitor but also
block such material instantly. Malik clarified that neither YouTube nor facebook was blocked and
only material detrimental to anti-Islamic material, obscene material
will be blocked on case to case basis. The interior minister said that he had also talked to and written a letter
to the Secretary General Interpol regarding the issue of posting of
defamatory video clip on the internet. The PTA in a statement on Thursday said that proactive monitoring
and blocking is being done, round the clock, of the film. However, a
search on YouTube revealed that the clip, being uploaded from various
accounts was still accessible in Pakistan though some links were
blocked. YouTube blocks film in some countries The film, Innocence of Muslims has been a subject of violent protests
from Egypt to Pakistan. Following violence outside US embassies in
Cairo and Benghazi, YouTube, on which the video is hosted, blocked it
from being viewed in Egypt and Libya. We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which
also enables people to express different opinions, YouTube said in a
statement. This can be a challenge because whats OK in one country
can be offensive elsewhere. This video which is widely available on
the web is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube.
However, given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt we have temporarily restricted access in both countries. Our hearts are with the
families of the people murdered in yesterdays attack in Libya. The Wall Street Journal reported that apart from Egypt and Libya, access to the film had been restricted in India as well. Meanwhile, Indonesia, which has one of the largest populations of
Muslims, too has requested YouTube to block the video there. The video sharing site has been blocked by the government in
Afghanistan since Tuesday to prevent emotions from flaring up.
Afghanistan said that the social network website would remain
blocked in their country till they decide to take the film off the internet.
As protests were held in many parts of Pakistan on Friday against
an anti-Islam film, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that a task
force has been constituted for round the clock supervision of
monitoring and blocking of anti-Islamic material on websites. Talking to media after chairing a high level meeting in Islamabad on
Friday, he said that a high level task force has been constituted that
will supervise the blocking process of the anti-Islamic material, with
the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Information
Technology Ministry having already blocked 122 anti-Islamic sites
including one video clip that was posted on the Internet this month. Providing details of the new steps, Malik said that the team would be
headed by Member (legal) in Ministry of Information Technology while
Member (technical), Director General, Pakistan Telecommunication
Authority (PTA) and Director, Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) would
be its members. The Committee will meet every week which will be
duly monitored by a team of two Federal Secretaries and Chairman PTA who will keep advising the concerned authorities to enhance the
monitoring system for zero tolerance on the issue. Since the canvas of the internet is too large and needs to be monitored
closely to control such blasphemous, anti-Islamic slogans, videos,
audios and other such material. In view of this, the meeting took some
decisions including that Pakistan would take serious cognisance of any
such detrimental material to Islam and obscene material being
released on the Internet and being replicated in Pakistan. All web designers, web sites, blocked sites, social media are told to
refrain from planting any such material which may hurt the feelings of
Muslims. Violators would be subject to serious action in terms of legal
action. Moreover, it was further decided that a control room under the
supervision of a Director PTA would come into force with immediate
effect to have 24 hours monitoring. It will not only monitor but also
block such material instantly. Malik clarified that neither YouTube nor facebook was blocked and
only material detrimental to anti-Islamic material, obscene material
will be blocked on case to case basis. The interior minister said that he had also talked to and written a letter
to the Secretary General Interpol regarding the issue of posting of
defamatory video clip on the internet. The PTA in a statement on Thursday said that proactive monitoring
and blocking is being done, round the clock, of the film. However, a
search on YouTube revealed that the clip, being uploaded from various
accounts was still accessible in Pakistan though some links were
blocked. YouTube blocks film in some countries The film, Innocence of Muslims has been a subject of violent protests
from Egypt to Pakistan. Following violence outside US embassies in
Cairo and Benghazi, YouTube, on which the video is hosted, blocked it
from being viewed in Egypt and Libya. We work hard to create a community everyone can enjoy and which
also enables people to express different opinions, YouTube said in a
statement. This can be a challenge because whats OK in one country
can be offensive elsewhere. This video which is widely available on
the web is clearly within our guidelines and so will stay on YouTube.
However, given the very difficult situation in Libya and Egypt we have temporarily restricted access in both countries. Our hearts are with the
families of the people murdered in yesterdays attack in Libya. The Wall Street Journal reported that apart from Egypt and Libya, access to the film had been restricted in India as well. Meanwhile, Indonesia, which has one of the largest populations of
Muslims, too has requested YouTube to block the video there. The video sharing site has been blocked by the government in
Afghanistan since Tuesday to prevent emotions from flaring up.
Afghanistan said that the social network website would remain
blocked in their country till they decide to take the film off the internet.
