New Delhi: Wikipedia was blacklisted in Pakistan after refusing to remove content related to objectionable or blasphemy. The Wikipedia website was recently ‘blocked’. News is now coming that the Wikipedia website has now been unblocked (Pakistan Wikipedia Unblocked).
In fact, according to the latest report by news agency Ani, now Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the authorities to unblock Wikipedia, the online government has announced. Significantly, the PTA had warned Wikipedia that if the content related to ‘blasphemy’ available on the website was not removed, it would be ‘blocked’.
However, the platform neither complied with the instructions to remove the blasphemous content nor appeared before the authority.’ Significantly, before this, social media giants Facebook and YouTube were ‘blocked’ in Pakistan for blasphemous content. Because blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan.
