Pakistan bans social media for religiously offensive content

2017-03-08 8

A ban has been placed on all social media sites in Pakistan. The measure was put in place after a group of five bloggers posted "blasphemous" images of the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui will prohibit them from leaving the country. Under the Pakistan penal code, consequences for defiling the prophet are deadly. Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui