YouTube halted during Imran Khan’s rally in Pakistan now restored

New Delhi:

YouTube has been restored after PTI president and former prime minister Imran Khan’s address at a rally in Peshawar was temporarily disrupted across Pakistan. According to a report in The Express Tribune, when the website was shut down across the country, users reported that YouTube was not working. According to the tweets of the users, YouTube was suddenly closed in all the big and small cities of the country. YouTube has not confirmed, nor has it confirmed any service restrictions.

According to a report in The Express Tribune, Internet outage tracking organization Netblocks confirmed the alleged shutdown of YouTube services and said the outage came despite the fact that the Islamabad High Court ordered Khan’s live speeches was. (PEMRA) restriction was lifted.

Netblocks recommends against network disruption and social media restrictions to limit political speech that adversely affect fundamental rights, including freedom of expression and freedom of assembly, the organization said in a statement.

The International Human Rights Foundation also objected to the incident, saying: blocking of YouTube, the closure of newspapers and TV channels, the forced dismissal and deportation of journalists, the arbitrary arrests of peaceful political opponents, false accusations of innocent civilians for terrorism. . Only on charges deserves one name: dictatorship.

According to a report in The Express Tribune, PTI leaders expressed their anger at the PML-N-led coalition government for development, saying the ban would not deter the party or its chief. Former Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that Pakistan has now officially become a banana republic. Former Human Rights Minister Shireen Mazari also tweeted and targeted the government regarding the development.