Reporters Without Borders today condemned the decision of the Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on 26 July to add 34 new web
addresses to the list of sites to which it blocks access. For the most
part they were Baluch nationalist sites, online radio stations and
sites relating to the Sindhi minority.
“We deplore these latest filtering
measures and we insist, yet again, that it is not the PTA’s job to
decide whether websites should be blocked,” the press freedom
organisation said. “We believe that such decisions should be taken by a
judge, after equitable legal proceedings, and definitely not by an
entity under government control.”
