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Pakistan Monitors Websites for Blasphemy

   VOA News 26 June 2010

   Pakistan  is  monitoring  seven  major  websites to block anti-Islamic
   content and links.
   The  Ministry  of Information said Friday it is also outright blocking
   17 other websites for alleged blasphemous material.
   A Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesman, Khurram Mehran, said
   the  sites  that will be monitored are Yahoo, Google, YouTube, Amazon,
   MSN, Hotmail and Bing.
   The  measures  follow  Pakistan's temporary ban imposed on the popular
   social network website Facebook in May because of a controversial page
   that encouraged users to draw the Prophet Muhammad. Â
   Most   Muslims   consider  any  images  made  of  the  prophet  to  be
   blasphemous.
   The  ban  on  Facebook  drew both praise and condemnation in a country
   that  has  long  struggled with how strict a version of Islam Pakistan
   should follow.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.

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