Read how Pakistan unblocks access to YouTube 3 years after banning it



More than three years after it was banned for
posting a video deemed insulting to Islam,
Pakistan has unblocked video sharing site,
YouTube. A Pakistan Telecommunication
Authority (PTA) official confirmed that all
internet service providers had been directed to
open access to YouTube.
The ban was lifted because Google, which
owns YouTube, had now launched a Pakistan-
specific version, in which the authorities can
now filter content.
According to Pakistan's ministry of
information technology: "Google has provided
an online web process through which requests
for blocking access of offending material can
be made by the PTA to Google directly and
Google/YouTube will accordingly restrict
access to the said offending material for
users within Pakistan."