SHC orders banning TikTok in Pakistan

KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday ordered to ban the video-sharing app TikTok across Pakistan, nearly three months after the u . S . Had lifted a ban imposed on it. The SHC’s order makes it the third time that the video-sharing platform has been banned in Pakistan.


The SHC’s ruling got here all through a hearing, where the court docket issued a word to the legal professional popular of Pakistan and directed him to follow the orders and get the app banned. Presenting his arguments inside the court docket, the petitioner’s legal professional said Peshawar High Court had in advance banned TikTok as some movies uploaded at the platform are "immoral and towards the teachings of Islam."


The attorney stated his customer had approached the PSHC orders banning TikTok in Pakistanakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) earlier than shifting the court, however, the PTA did not do anything on this regard. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court (SC) became asked to vicinity a ban on systems along with TikTok due to its propagation of vulgar content material that's morally outrageous and reprehensible in a society ruled by means of the dictates of Quran and Sunnah.


Mian Ali Zaib Bukhsh and others filed a petition underneath Article 184(3) of the Constitution, making the federation of Pakistan via the secretary Cabinet Division, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), and Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) as respondents


Drawn by Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique, the petitioner prayed to the apex court docket that the ban should be temporary in nature, until the present policy is revised and a comprehensive and powerful policy is brought that filters the content material in query. The petitioner additionally prayed to direct the authorities of Pakistan to put in place a new regulatory mechanism to censor the content of the nature mounted above, along the course for authorities to recall the reforms. The petitioner submitted that no regulation shall succeed in abrogation to Article 2 of the Constitution, i.E. The injunctions and commands of Quran and Sunnah. The petitioner submitted that TikTok is a social media platform which has a person base of over 33 million in Pakistan as in line with eleven.03.2021, claimed by using a cellular insight company.

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