TikTok unbanned in Pakistan: ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Scientific Research as well as Modern Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday claimed that Peshawar High Court (PHC) has actually raised the ban on TikTok bought by a single-member bench of the same court.
” Peshawar High Court has put on hold the procedure of single bench judgement, restriction on TikTok has been lifted,” tweeted the federal minister.
The minister stated Pakistan needs to take care while taking decisions that may create damage to the economic future of the nation.
” We require a structure to urge global companies to make Pakistan their investment center,” claimed the minister.
PTA guides provider to prohibit TikTok
Last month, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had directed the nation’s service providers to block users’ access to video-sharing application TikTok according to the court’s orders.
The PHC had ordered Pakistani authorities to immediately prohibit the video-sharing platform in the nation.
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“In considerate compliance to the orders of the Peshawar High Court, PTA has released instructions to the provider to quickly obstruct access to the TikTok App,” the PTA said.
The orders were issued by PHC Principal Justice Qaiser Rashid Khan, who was listening to a request submitted by a person seeking a restriction on Tiktok.
This was the 2nd time that the commonly utilized App was outlawed in Pakistan.
In October of last year, the PTA had obstructed the Chinese-owned video-sharing application after the business “failed to totally conform” with its guidelines for “growth of a reliable mechanism for positive small amounts of illegal on the internet web content”.
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