After blocking for many hours, Pakistani authorities have lifted a ban on twitter, the social networking website.
Earlier Pakistan had blocked Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s top telecommunications officials.
The material was promoting a competition on Facebook to post images of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), said Mohammad Yaseen, chairman of the Pakistan Telecommunication’s Authority. Many Muslims regard depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.
Yaseen said Facebook agreed to address Pakistan’s concerns about the competition, but officials have failed to get Twitter to do the same.
”We have been negotiating with them until last night, but they did not agree to remove the stuff, so we had to block it,” said Yaseen.
Instructions to block the site came from Pakistan’s Ministry of Information Technology, said Yaseen.
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