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Pakistan to block social media app TikTok on court order

  • 11 Mar 2021
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Pakistan will block social media app TikTok on a court order, a spokesman for the country's telecoms regulator said on Thursday.

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"The court has asked PTA to block access to TikTok," Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) spokesman Khurram Mehran told Reuters, adding the authority would comply with the order.

A high court in the northwestern city of Peshawar said it was ordering the ban after a private complainant said the social media app was spreading indecent content, Jehanzeb Mehsud, a lawyer who represented the PTA, said.

Reuters

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