Summary YouTube has been banned in Pakistan since September 2012.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) - The Functional Committee on Human Rights of Senate has unanimously passed a resolution for lifting ban on YouTube website.
The committee held its meeting in Islamabad on Monday in the chairmanship of Senator Afrasiab Khattak. The committee said the issue of lifting ban from YouTube will be raised in today s Senate session. It is suggested by the committee that ban on the website is of no use.
It is worth noticing that the government had imposed ban on the website about 18 months ago because of webcasting of blasphemous material.
Earlier, a Pakistani rights group who is fighting YouTube ban in Lahore High Court said that the government has no reason to maintain the ban now that the videos are to be removed from YouTube.
Bytes for All spokesperson Shahzad Ahmed said that the ban has more to do with government’s censorship and moral policing than blasphemy.
