Summary Students from different disciplines of researches are encountering issues, states plea
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Plea challenging long-standing ban on YouTube has been filed in the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan on Thursday.
Barrister Zafarullah has moved the petition in the Lahore Registry of the Supreme Court. The plea states that ban is affecting studies and students research. Blasphemous material was removed from the website and it does not bear anything objectionable now.
The plea states that students from different disciplines of research are encountering issues due to the prolonged ban.
The Supreme Court has been requested to lift the ban as it is not ‘required’ now.
World s largest video sharing website was banned in Pakistan in September 2012. It has been more than three years but YouTube still is officially a banned website.
Earlier, the ruling party had opposed a resolution that demanded halt to the ban. In the National Assembly (NA), a resolution was moved by Pakistan People s Party (PPP) Shazia Marri. However, lawmakers belonging to the ruling party, Pakistan Muslim Leaue-Nawaz (PML-N) did not take the demand well.
The resolution moved stated that there is no point of banning the website as it ould be opened anywhere using proxies.
It should be mentioned here Federal Information Minister Pervez Rashid had said in March that the Information Technology (IT) experts have developed a mechanism that would filter the controversial material. Later on, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had cited issues which were were impossible to overcome for online scanning.
