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Despite localisation, YouTube remains blocked

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ISLAMABAD: Despite having been launched globally, Internet users in the country still cannot access ‘YouTube PK’, the popular video-sharing website domain localised specifically for Pakistan. On Tuesday, Google announced that YouTube was now also available in Urdu. A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) official, speaking to Dawn on condition of anonymity, said that the Supreme Court […]


Senate body asks govt to unblock YouTube

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ISLAMABAD: A Senate standing committee on Tuesday directed the Ministry of Information Technology to unblock YouTube at the earliest. “Both the Internet users and service providers are at the losing ends. The users have been deprived of an important educational platform and Google is losing money,” said chairman Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology Shahi […]