May 31, 2010 8:08 PM

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Pak court orders Facebook to be restored

A court in Pakistan has ordered the authorities to restore the Facebook social networking site. The court had ordered the blocking of the site after a petition was filed against a competition featuring caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. <br/><br/>The petition, filed by a lawyers' group called the Islamic Lawyers' Movement, said the contest was "blasphemous". Pakistan's deputy attorney told the court today that Facebook had withdrawn the competition. <br/><br/>Justice Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry of the Lahore High Court thereafter reversed his 19 May order to the Pakistani authorities to block the site. He asked the government to develop a system to find out how countries like Saudi Arabia were blocking access to "blasphemous" content on the internet.<br/><br/>Juistice Chaudhry said it is the government's job to take care of such things, which spark resentment among the people and bring them onto the streets. He said the authorities should take steps to block any blasphemous content on the internet.

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