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Pakistan Bans Facebook

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Pakistan briefly banned YouTube in February 2008 in a similar protest against "blasphemous" cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) on the popular website.

YouTube said an Internet service provider complying with Pakistan's ban routed many worldwide users to nowhere for a couple of hours, which sparked a worldwide outage.

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Muhammad Khurshid, a resident of Bajaur District, tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan border is journalist by profession. He contributes articles and news stories to various online and print newspapers. His subject matter is terrorism. He is (more...)

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