Pakistan will unblock the popular video sharing website 'YouTube' within 24hours, the country's Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said, after over three months ban.
Malik announced the government's plan to lift the ban on YouTube and Twitter last night, saying precautions would be taken to filter blasphemous material and pornography.
"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.
The minister said that the decision to revoke the ban on YouTube and Twitter was being taken due to huge public demand, but added that the telecom regulator would install a firewall to block unseemly content.
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'.
The film triggered violent protests by right wing groups across Pakistan and the government itself sanctioned a day of protests on September 21, which was observed as "Love the Prophet Day".
Twenty-three people were killed and property worth billions of rupees was destroyed during these protests.
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