Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif Monday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to “immediately” remove the ban on the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, following a two-day suspension.
The decision was made on the recommendation of a three-member ministerial committee comprising Minister for Law and Justice Azam Nazeer Tarar, Minister for Economic Affairs and Political Affairs Ayaz Sadiq, and Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, according to a statement from the PM’s Office.
On February 1, PTA announced that it was “degrading” Wikipedia services in Pakistan over the existence of “sacrilegious content”, which the platform had been asked to remove, but failed to do so.
