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ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) was on Monday conveyed that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and TikTok officials are engaged in talks to lift a ban on the video-sharing app. During a hearing of a case pertaining to a ban on TikTok headed by IHC Chief Justice Athar Minallah, the court directed the PTA authorities to raise the issue of the …

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tel­ecommunication Authority (PTA) has told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that till January 2021, the authority has blocked 980,000 links containing hate speech, controversial and objectionable content. The PTA in a report submitted to the IHC stated that out of blocked content an overwhelming majority was of pornographic material. According to the report, 865,187 links of pornographic …