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Indian authorities have asked journalists to refrain from live coverage of gun battles in Indian-administered Kashmir, a move seen by critics as a measure to further suppress freedom of the press in the restive Himalayan region.   Last week, Kashmir authorities denounced live reporting as a provocation amounting to interference ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan temporarily blocked access to all social media platforms Friday amid a crackdown on a radical Islamist party leading recent nationwide violent demonstrations against France over the publication of anti-Islam cartoons in a French magazine.  The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority confirmed blocking Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, TikTok, and ...

Pakistan Social Media Ban: On Friday (April 16), citing security from the Home Ministry of Pakistan, shut down the social media platform across the country for four hours. Islamabad In today's time, social media is the largest means of acquiring or disseminating information. On social media, every moment, every ...

Government orders hours-long shutdown of social media and instant messaging platforms after days of violent protests.Pakistan has temporarily blocked Facebook, Twitter and several other social media apps on security grounds amid a crackdown against a violent far-right group, officials said. “In order to maintain public order and safety, access ...

The Pakistani government has blocked access to social media and instant messaging platforms, after violent anti-France protests over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed left at least four policemen dead and hundreds wounded. On Friday, the Interior Ministry ordered the telecommunications authority to “completely” cut off access to Twitter, Facebook, ...

The TLP, an Islamist party, has been banned under terrorism laws on April 15th. The TLP was formed in 2015, had its leader arrested in 2018, then his son recently, followed by a ban under terrorism laws, just a couple days ago. They had 3 seats in one province's ...

#Pakistan News Pakistan restored Facebook, Twitter and several other social media apps on Friday after blocking them for about five hours on security grounds amid anti-France protests that have been raging in the country for days and led to deaths among demonstrators and police. In a notice to the ...

#Pakistan News Fast News The ban, instated until 1100 GMT on YouTube, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Telegram, comes as government tries to stem days of anti-French protests by supporters of now-banned far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan. Police officers arrive to confront angry supporters of Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan, an extremist party that set ...

Pakistan blocked multiple social media apps temporarily on security grounds on Friday amid a crackdown against a violent extremist group, officials said.“In order to maintain public order and safety, access to certain social media applications has been restricted temporarily,” a senior telecommunications authority official told Reuters, without specifying which ...

Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday temporarily suspended the services of social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp to stop their use to organise demonstrations following violent protests by a radical religious group that has now been banned by the government. The government banned Tehreek-i-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) on Thursday following ...