Islamabad:
Pakistan has blocked 800 URLs that had "blasphemous" content in the wake of the ban on Facebook and YouTube, which featured cartoons of Prophet Mohammed.
Acting on an order of the Lahore high court, Pakistan's telecommunications authority initially banned the social networking website Facebook over a page featuring a contest for "blashemous" cartoons of the prophet. The ban was then extended YouTube and other sites.
The move also affected access to Wikipedia and Twitter, internet users said.
"So far, two sites and about 800 URLs have been blocked to prevent access to blasphemous and sacrilegious content," Wahaj-us-Siraj, a spokesman for the Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan said.
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