June 24, 2010 3:42 PM

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Pak court bans google, yahoo & seven other websites

A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material. Officials, however said, said they had not received any instruction to block the sites.Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore High Court has directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites, including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon, for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.Justice Mazher Iqbal Sidhu issued the order while hearing a petition filed by one Muhammad Sidiq who claimed that these websites are publishing sacrilegious material. The judge also ordered the PTA chairman to appear in court on June 28 with relevant materials.

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