Pakistan to lift ban on YouTube within 24 hours

December 28, 2012 23:06

Interior Minister Rehman Malik today said Pakistani authorities would lift a ban on YouTube within 24 hours, over three months after the popular website was blocked so that people could not access clips from an anti-Islam film.

Malik announced the government's plan to lift the ban on YouTube and Twitter tonight.

"I chaired a high level (meeting with) all stakeholders on the (YouTube). (Good) job by PTA (to) block anti-Islamic material! (Please expect YouTube) unblocked in 24 hrs," he said in a tweet.

He acknowledged in another tweet that there was a "great demand to unblock (YouTube) from all sections of society", especially users of Twitter.

"Expect the notification today! Hope u r all happy now," he said.

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf had in mid-September directed authorities to block YouTube for hosting "blasphemous material", including clips from the movie 'Innocence Of Muslims'.

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