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 WordPress.com in Pakistan. As of now, the website is inaccessible on all major Pakistani ISPs. Just to be recalled, WordPress is a blogging platform that hosts millio…

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