TikTok ban: Fawad Chaudhry hits out at 'judicial activism'

 ISLAMABAD: Pakistan will never be able to break out its economic disaster if it doesn't perform judicial reforms, said Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry Wednesday. 


The minister was responding to the Sindh High Court's (SHC) verdict issued on Monday, wherein it ordered the video-sharing app TikTok to be suspended across Pakistan until July 8, nearly three months after the u . S . 

Chaudhry warned of results Pakistan will face in case it did not perform judicial reforms.


Pakistan will never pop out of its financial disaster if judicial reforms aren't undertaken, he tweeted.


I'm baffled after studying the day gone by's verdicts on suspension of TikTok and the removal of the NBP president, and cannot help however wonder: what are our courts doing asked the information minister.



Chaudhry referred to that Pakistan, already, changed into laid low with losses really worth billions of bucks because of "judicial activism".


This is not the first time the minister has criticised the court's verdict, specifically those regarding digital apps in Pakistan.


In February, the minister had said judicial activism in the past set back Pakistan's technological development.


Speaking on the International Media Conference in February, Chaudhry had lamented that Pakistan's members of the family with digital media companies deteriorated due to some court docket choices taken in 2014.


He had regretted the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority's choice to dam TikTok remaining year.


I plead with judges not to pay attention cases relating to digital media,he had stated.


The minister had highlighted that if Pakistan does now not regulate its state regulations, it's going to in no way be able to appeal to foreign funding. Political and monetary independence moulds an man or woman's life, he had stated.


Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry. File photo


The SHC's ruling got here at some point of a hearing on a petition filed to suspend the app Monday, wherein the court issued a observe to the legal professional fashionable of Pakistan and directed him to observe the orders and get the app suspended.


Presenting his arguments within the court docket, the petitioner's lawyer said the Peshawar High Court had earlier banned TikTok as a few videos uploaded at the platform are "immoral and in opposition to the lessons of Islam."


The legal professional had stated his patron had approached the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) earlier than shifting the court, however, the PTA did now not do anything on this regard.

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