The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked Saturday by order of the government access to Facebook, YouTube , and some 800 other links, and restricted access to sites such as Wikipedia.If access to Facebook or YouTube will be restored, the other pages to content deemed “blasphemous,” will remain blocked, “said Interior Minister, Rehman Malik.

The Pakistani government blocked Facebook and YouTube and the Reason for this is the internet hype “Draw Muhammad Day ‘. On Wednesday the Pakistani government blocked as some users urged to make Muhammad Cartoons. But it threw oil on the fire in no time surfaced protest pages, movies and even on websites.

Pakistan reacts now to the relevant websites, including YouTube, even blocking. On Friday, a hearing that determines whether the censorship or not be lifted.

Draw Muhammad Day :

Thursday, May 20 was the world as Muhammad Draw Day: the day (amateur) cartoonists worldwide massive images of the Prophet Muhammad would make. That action was in protest against a South Park Episode censored life invoked.
The channel Comedy Central was heavily censored after that episode, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker had received death threats. Ironically, it was because both 200 and 201 episode ridiculed the fact that you cannot depict Mohammed.

Founders intimidated:

Both the website and the Facebook page which were encouraged to draw Mohammed, have now been taken offline.Molly Norris, a woman from Seattle was the founder of www.drawmuhammadday.com . She was also afraid to see the reaction .The Facebook page where hundreds of cartoons on Thursday appeared, followed Mollys example and is no longer available. The ban will remain on this because the content deemed “blasphemous”.

He said to Reuters that “Only a few days back I came in (as a Twitter user). I like it,”. “There are lots of questions, are you real, are you fake?” Malik also clarified that in few days he had more than 270 followers. Malik believes in Open mindedness and freely engages with his followers and fans on Twitter now.

Last week Pakistan had blocked the popular social networking site Facebook for an indefinite period. The site was blocked because a user has started online competition to draw Islam’s prophet.

In Islam any representation of the Prophet Mohammad is deemed un-Islamic and blasphemous by Muslims.

“CONTENT blasphemous” – On Wednesday, the court in Lahore ruled ‘blasphemous’ launched a contest on Facebook, which called on Internet users to publish online caricatures of Muhammad. The ‘link’ considered sacrilege had been previously blocked by Internet service providers, but some of the satirical drawings were uploaded to YouTube.

WIKIPEDIA AND FLICKR – The Telecommunications Authority of Pakistan has also indicated through a statement that it had blocked more than 450 links containing such materials. Have also been restricted access to Wikipedia and the sharing site Flickr photo.

In a hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee of the House of Representatives United States of America in Washington on Wednesday, the vice president of Google, Nicole Wong, cited the ban on blogs calling for the boycott of products of Catalonia – determined by a Spanish judge – as an example of censorship.

“We suffered a blockage in China, Spain, India, Pakistan, Iran, Myanmar and Ethiopia,” said Wong. “Google has been a habitual focus of government efforts to limit freedom of expression because our technologies and services allow people connected to the internet speak to a worldwide audience.”

You Tube is blocked in 12 countries, the most popular video service, Internet, owned by Google. In the Spanish case censorship, according to vice president of Google, occurs in the service of Blogspot blogs. Already Saudi Arabia, Iran and UAE were cited as countries that criticized the social network Orkut.

On day 2, the Subcommittee on Human Rights of the Senate, Google had mentioned Spain as a country that practices censorship.

The newspaper El Pais saidthey contacted with Google, the Spanish office issued a statement saying that although it actually occurred censorship to blogs, this is an isolated incident. “We have no problems with Spain with regard to freedom of expression,” the statement said.

“That did not stop Google from against Spain, without presenting any evidence, as a country where censorship is practiced the web”, criticized the newspaper on Thursday. “Several countries, media and news services have echoed this complaint, naming Spain in their texts.