70% Pakistanis Would Like Ceaseless Facebook Blockade

A new survey has exposed that 70 %  people in Pakistan wish for a unending restraints on the Facebook, a social networking website while another 15% favor the Lahore High Court’s verdict to prohibit the website till May 31. According to the ‘ProPakistani.pk’ survey, the contributors articulated their violent resentment on Facebook for exhibiting sacrilegious caricatures of Prophet Muhammad.

In the first three days of the survey, which is still ongoing, 8%  contributors were of the view that a sole website blockade was adequate, while the remaining 7 %  supposed they did not would like barricade on Facebook at all. Acting on the court’s verdict the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had previously ordered all Internet service providers (ISP’s) in the state to ban Facebook, as Islamic activists over the Prophet Muhammad drawings’ row had aggravated around the country.

Giving remarks on the survey results, Jabran Rafique, a student, supposed that thousands of people had protested against Facebook to eradicate the sacrilegious material via the website’s typical coverage process, but no notice was taken. “But on the other hand they only took 20 minutes to shut down a page against Jewish on demand of some so-called Jewish cyber force. Does it not a discrimination against only one race and religion? We must not use Facebook ever again,” The Nation referred Rafique’s opinion.