PTA issues orders to unblock Youtube

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has issued orders to unblock video sharing website Youtube.

The PTA has ordered all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and IT companies to unblock Youtube immediately.

In a tweet Friday night, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Youtube would be restored within 24 hours. “There was a great demand to unblock Youtube,” Malik tweeted.

The video sharing website had been blocked for over 100 days after violent protests over the posting of an anti-Islam film.

Speaking to Geo News, DG PTA said talks were underway with Google to remove blasphemous content from Youtube.

Prior to this, Youtube had been blocked in Pakistan in 2008 and 2010.