Pakistan on Monday January 18,2016 allowed internet users to access YouTube more than three years after the popular video-sharing website was blocked following violent protests over clips from the anti-Islam movie “Innocence Of Muslims”.
The information technology ministry ordered internet services providers (ISPs) to unblock the website across the country days after the Pakistan Telecom Authority, the telecom regulator, informed the Supreme Court that it is now possible to remove objectionable videos from the website after Google launched a localised version of YouTube for Pakistan.
The Pakistan Government blocked the website on September 17, 2012, after receiving complaints that clips from the contentious movie “Innocence Of Muslims” had been uploaded on YouTube from the US. Pakistan witnessed violent protests against the film, which caused uproar in the Muslim world.
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