{"id":302437,"date":"2017-03-17T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=302437"},"modified":"2017-03-17T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T05:23:10","slug":"pakistan-asks-facebook-to-help-fight-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/03\/pakistan-asks-facebook-to-help-fight-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan asks Facebook to help fight blasphemy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Pakistan says it has asked Facebook to help investigate “blasphemous content” posted on the social network by Pakistanis.<\/p>\n
Facebook has agreed to send a team to Pakistan to address reservations about content on the social media site, according to the interior ministry.<\/p>\n
Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Critics say blasphemy laws, which allow the death penalty in some cases, are often misused to oppress minorities.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif voiced his support for a wide-ranging crackdown on blasphemous content on social media.<\/p>\n
In a statement on his party’s official Twitter account, he described blasphemy as an “unpardonable offence”.<\/p>\n
‘Should share information’<\/strong><\/p>\n Then on Thursday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar reasserted Pakistan’s determination to tackle the issue, saying he would take “any steps necessary” to make sure Pakistan’s message gets across.<\/p>\n He said he had asked officials to liaise with the FBI in the US and with social media platforms on a daily basis.<\/p>\n “Facebook and other service providers should share all information about the people behind this blasphemous content with us,” he is quoted as saying by the Dawn newspaper.<\/p>\n In a statement quoted by the AP news agency, Facebook said it viewed government requests with care keeping in mind “the goal of protecting the privacy and rights of our users.<\/p>\n “We disclose information about accounts solely in accordance with our terms of service and applicable law. A Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty or other formal request may be required for international requests, and we include these in our Government Requests Report.”<\/p>\n Facebook has not confirmed whether it will be sending a delegation to Pakistan to address the concerns of the government.<\/p>\n Pakistan has often blocked access to pornographic sites and sites with anti-Islamic content and in 2010 a Pakistani court blocked Facebook after over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pakistan says it has asked Facebook to help investigate “blasphemous content” posted on the social network by Pakistanis. Facebook has agreed to send a team to Pakistan to address reservations about content on the social media site, according to the interior ministry. Blasphemy is a highly sensitive and incendiary issue in Pakistan. Critics say blasphemy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[5172,339,4011],"yoast_head":"\n