WordPress Banned in Pakistan by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <img border="0" src="http://s23.postimg.org/prigi79sr/wordpress_banned_by_PTA.jpg" style="text-align: center;" /><br /> <b><span style="color: blue;">Pakistan Telecommunication Authority</span></b>, in a recent development, has asked Pakistani Internet service providers to block the access of <b><span style="color: blue;">WordPress.com</span></b> in Pakistan. As of now, the website is inaccessible on all major Pakistani ISPs.<br /> <br /> Just to be recalled, WordPress is a blogging platform that hosts millions of blogs from across the world.<br /> <br /> While we don’t have any word from <b><span style="color: blue;">PTA</span></b> on why this decision was made and on what grounds such popular and so widely used blogging platform was blocked, we anticipate that it will get unblocked soon.<br /> <br /> Not to be mentioned, <b><span style="color: blue;">PTA</span></b> was just granted the powers to monitor content on Internet and block any indecent, blasphemous or anti state website. Previously such decisions were made by inter-ministerial committee that was dissolved on directions of a recently issued court order. Prime minister of Pakistan, after inter-ministerial committee was dissolved, granted <span style="color: blue;"><b>PTA</b></span> the authority to control content on the Internet.<br /> <br /> We have seen <b><span style="color: blue;">PTA</span></b> in past making decisions in haste, and later reversing them.<br /> <br /> This is a developing story and we will update it when we get any further details.<br /> <br /> <span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Update</b></span><br /> <br /> A source at <b><span style="color: blue;">Pakistan Telecommunication Authority</span></b> has confirmed <b><span style="color: red;">RexHacker</span></b> that <b><span style="color: blue;">WordPress.com</span></b> is temporarily blocked in Pakistan due to severe issues related to national security. It appears now that blocking decision is somewhat related to Pakistan day.<br /> <br /> Source, who wanted to remain unnamed, said that exact content that caused the blockade can’t be revealed due to seriousness of the matter.<br /> <br /> Source further confirmed that <b><span style="color: blue;">WordPress.com</span></b> will be unblocked in two days from now.</div>

WordPress Banned in Pakistan by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority , in a recent development, has asked Pakistani Internet service providers to block the access of Word...

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