Lahore High Court’s Bahawalpur Bench has ordered to block 17 websites for carrying blasphemous content. The bench also ordered to monitor seven websites including Yahoo, Youtube etc.

Later, the government ordered the monitoring of major websites including Google, Yahoo and YouTube for “anti-Islam content” on Friday, an official said.

“The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has received orders from the ministry of information technology to monitor these websites, which are being implemented,” a spokesman for the authority said.

PTA officials have been summoned on June 28 in this regard.

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