Officials:Pakistan Blocks YouTube For ‘Blasphemous’ Content-AFP

Pakistan has ordered all Internet service providers to block the YouTube Web site for containing “blasphemous” content and material considered offensive to Islam, officials said Sunday.

An inter-ministerial committee has decided to block YouTube, a division of Google Inc. (GOOG), because it contained “blasphemous content, videos and documents,” a government official told AFP.

Source: AFP

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