Source: DTN News By Roger Smith(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - May 27, 2010: Recently, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) banned access to Facebook, YouTube and more than 450 links, including restricted access to Wikipedia in view of what it called "growing sacrilegious content".
A Facebook page that fueled rage and protest in Pakistan was gone from the popular online social networking service on Friday but the popular social networking service said it remained blocked in that country.
In Peshawar on May 26, 2010. Pashtun men take part in a protest against Facebook last week blocked the popular social networking site Facebook indefinitely because of an online competition to draw Islam's prophet. Any representation of the Prophet Mohammad is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by Muslims.
Pakistani protestors burn an effigy of US President Barack Obama as they protest against Facebook in Lahore on May 26, 2010.
Pakistan is to lift a ban on Facebook and YouTube in the next few days, after blocking the websites over 'sacrilegious' content, the country's interior minister said. When a Facebook user decided to organise an 'Everyone Draw Mohammed Day' competition to promote 'freedom of expression', it sparked a major backlash among Islamic activists in the South Asian country of 170 million.
Islam strictly prohibits the depiction of any prophet as blasphemous and the row sparked comparison with protests across the Muslim world over the publication of satirical cartoons of Mohammed in European newspapers in 2006.
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