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India imposed a three-day ban on Facebook and other social media sites during the riots in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh after the conviction of Baba Ram Rahim Singh in 2017. [citation needed] Censorship on Facebook increased by 19% in 6 months in 2014; India led the list of content removal in 2014. [citation needed]
According to human rights groups, blasphemy laws in Pakistan are often exploited, even against Muslims, to settle personal rivalries or to persecute minorities. Almost any person that speaks out against blasphemy laws or proceedings is in danger of being lynched or killed by a mob. [1]
Internet censorship in Pakistan is due to the governments attempts to control information sent and received using social media and the Internet in Pakistan. Presently, as of December 2024, X (formerly Twitter) is banned, despite the government using the platform to issue official statements.
In 2016, Facebook banned and also removed content regarding the Kashmir dispute, triggering a response from The Guardian, BBC and other media groups on Facebook's policies on censorship. [ 66 ] [ 67 ] Facebook censorship policies have been criticized especially after the company banned the posts about the Indian army's attack on protesters ...
Pakistan's score was 61 on a scale from 1 (most free) to 100 (least free), which earned a status of "not free". [3] Reporters Without Borders put Pakistan 145 out of the 180 countries ranked in its 2020 Press Freedom Index. [2] A previous report by RSF in 2010 named Pakistan as one of "ten countries where it is not good to be a journalist". It ...
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Separatist militant attacks on police stations, railway lines and highways in Pakistan's restive province of Balochistan, coupled with retaliatory operations by ...
He then returned to Pakistan without completing his studies [9] due to the family's limited financial resources. [10] Upon returning to Pakistan, he enrolled in the department of journalism at Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan [9] and was planning to do a Master's in Mass Media and Journalism and was also preparing for his civil services exams. [8]
In 2015, a documentary was released about Saba Qaiser, [40] a woman from Punjab, Pakistan, [41] who married a man against her family's wishes [42] because his family was of "lowly status". [41] In response to her elopement, her father and uncle beat her, shot her in the head, put her body in a sack, and threw the sack into a river. [ 42 ]