The Ministry of Communication has blocked all the links of Facebook, holding a competition of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)
According to the report, Islamic Lawyers Movement filed the petition in Lahore High Court (LHC) through Chaudhry Zulfiqar advocate, who stated that under the law no practice against Islam could be allowed in the country.
He told the court that the website, having various features against the injunctions of Islam, is banned in various countries.
On Tuesday, LHC issued notice to the Ministry of Communication to submit its reply.
Ministry of Communication told that the link of blasphemous caricatures has been blocked, adding that the website can not be completely banned.
Facebook users in Pakistan, however, told AFP they could still access the site after the ban was imposed on Wednesday.
Officials with the Pakistani government told the court they had already blocked Facebook pages relating to the competition, but the lawyers group argued that no part of a site can be banned unless the entire site is blocked.
Pakistan has 45 million Facebook users, according to lawyers.
The Facebook page for “Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” had just over 40,000 supporters while the opposing “Against Everybody Draw Mohammed Day” had more than 53,000.
Facebook on Friday modified its news feed feature to let members of the world’s leading social-networking service catch up on tidbits they may have missed while away from the website.
