The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday blocked a US-based website “trueislam.com”, being run by members of Ahmadiyya community, for viewership in the country over charges of propagating blasphemous content.
"PTA approached the administrator of website www.trueislam.com for removal of unlawful online content from the website, being in violation of section 295-A, 298-B and 298-C of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and per se abuse of Article 260 (3) and Article 31 of the Constitution of Pakistan," the statement added.
The above mentioned PPC sections and articles are related to blasphemy.
It said that in accordance with the provisions of Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguard), Rules, 2020 (“Rules”), the administrator of the website was directed to remove the unlawful content.
