Source/Credit: MSN News | PTI
By M Zulqernain | January 28, 2011
Lahore, Jan 28 (PTI) A Pakistani court has directed the Foreign Ministry to inform it about steps that have been taken to raise the issue of blasphemous caricatures and material against the Prophet Mohammed and Quran at the international level.
Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry issued the order while hearing a petition against social networking website Facebook and other websites for allegedly hosting blasphemous content.
The petition, filed by lawyer Muhammad Azhar Siddique, asked the court to direct the government to take steps for blocking such websites in Pakistan.
Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik appeared during the hearing of the case yesterday and assured the court about the compliance of its orders.
He told the court that a detailed report on the matter would be submitted at the next hearing.
A report submitted by Ministry of Information Technology said that an inter-ministerial committee is working to stop the display of objectionable material on websites, including Facebook.
The report said hundreds of websites that contained anti-Islam or blasphemous material had been blocked by the committee since July last year.
The petitioner contradicted the claims of the ministry, saying blasphemous contents were still present on some websites.
He said the government did not raise the issue at the UN General Assembly by tabling a resolution as directed by the court in an earlier order.
The Lahore High Court had briefly banned Facebook last year for having pages that displayed blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammed.
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