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Daily Archives: October 20, 2020

Reporter robbed at gunpoint

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KARACHI: Robbers looted Express News reporter Nasir Butt at gunpoint near the Karachi City Court on Monday. According to Butt, the robbers snatched his mobile phone and his wallet, which contained cash, his CNIC and other documents. Due to the arrest of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s Capt (retd) Safdar on the day, there was a large […]


SHC rejects plea against TikTok ban

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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court rejected on Monday a petition challenging the ban on social media platform TikTok, due to the lack of pursuance of the case. A two-member bench, headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, was hearing the plea. The petitioner had maintained in the plea that over 200 million people used the application […]


PTA restores TikTok with certain conditions

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has restored TikTok services with certain conditions. Talking to Business Recorder, spokesperson Khurram Mehran said that TikTok had been unblocked with immediate effect after getting assurance from the short video app management. In view of the presence of vulgar, indecent/immoral content on the platform and its negative effects on […]


PTA informs Senate panel

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TikTok blocked 4m videos in three months ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Monday revealed that TikTok had blocked four million videos during the last three months and suspended 25,000 accounts. This was revealed before the Senate Standing Committee on Information and Technology, which met with Rubina Khalid in the chair, here on Monday. […]