PTI | May 26, 2011, 08.24pm IST
LAHORE: A Pakistani court has issued notice to the federal government on a petition seeking a permanent ban on social networking website Facebook for hosting a contest on blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed Deputy Attorney General Ziaul Qamar Bhatti to submit get a "detailed report" on behalf of the federal government and Information Technology Ministry and to take necessary steps to address the matter by the next hearing on June 24.
Mohammad and Ahmad, a public interest litigation firm, filed the petition through its chairman Mohammad Azhar Siddique and sought a permanent ban on Facebook for hosting contest for drawing blasphemous caricature under the title "2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day - May 20, 2011".
The petitioner requested that Facebook and all websites resorting to similar acts should be permanently blocked or banned in Pakistan for airing, placing, visualising obscene caricatures of the Prophet.
Siddique also asked the court to direct the federal government to stop the display of material considered blasphemous by followers of any religion or insulting Prophets on Facebook and any other websites.
The Lahore High Court had briefly banned Facebook last year over similar blasphemous cartoons.
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Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed of the Lahore High Court yesterday directed Deputy Attorney General Ziaul Qamar Bhatti to submit get a "detailed report" on behalf of the federal government and Information Technology Ministry and to take necessary steps to address the matter by the next hearing on June 24.
Mohammad and Ahmad, a public interest litigation firm, filed the petition through its chairman Mohammad Azhar Siddique and sought a permanent ban on Facebook for hosting contest for drawing blasphemous caricature under the title "2nd Annual Draw Muhammad Day - May 20, 2011".
The petitioner requested that Facebook and all websites resorting to similar acts should be permanently blocked or banned in Pakistan for airing, placing, visualising obscene caricatures of the Prophet.
Siddique also asked the court to direct the federal government to stop the display of material considered blasphemous by followers of any religion or insulting Prophets on Facebook and any other websites.
The Lahore High Court had briefly banned Facebook last year over similar blasphemous cartoons.
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