IHC to listen to plea in opposition to X ban in Pakistan – SUCH TV
The Islamabad Prime Court docket (IHC) has mounted Febraury 6 for listening to the plea difficult the ban on social media platform X, previously referred to as Twitter.
The petition, which used to be final heard on April 17, 2024, has confronted a couple of delays, with prior hearings on Would possibly 2 and June 11, 2024, additionally being postponed.
A miscellaneous utility for an early listening to used to be approved by means of the courtroom on November 22, 2024.
IHC Leader Justice Aamir Farooq, after reviewing the case, directed that the petition be heard after the wintry weather holiday length.
In March, the internal ministry admitted to the Sindh Prime Court docket (SHC) that X have been formally blocked in February in line with intelligence reviews. Get admission to to the platform has been limited in more than a few portions of Pakistan since February 17.
Alternatively, Data Minister Attaullah Tarar clarified that the ban on social media platform X, previously Twitter, used to be imposed because of nationwide safety considerations, to not restrict freedom of expression.
Particularly, Pakistan has landed within the backside 12% globally for each cell and broadband web speeds, as reported by means of Ookla’s Speedtest International Index.
The index ranked the rustic one hundredth out of 111 international locations in cell web speeds and 141st out of 158 international locations in broadband speeds as of October.
For the previous a number of months, customers around the country had been going through gradual connections, together with issue downloading media on WhatsApp and common connectivity problems.
The disruptions have raised considerations, specifically as Pakistan continues to revel in interruptions to web get right of entry to and reviews of limited digital non-public community (VPN) utilization.
VPNs, which many Pakistanis depend on to get right of entry to blocked web pages similar to X (previously Twitter), have grow to be increasingly more limited.
