Islamabad: Pakistan has set up a committee to streamline mechanism for screening and blocking websites with objectionable contents.
"This is the first-ever focused attempt by the government to block offensive websites, warranted because of growing concern among people about indecent content,” a senior government official said.
Ministry of Information Technology, its Secretary Farrukh Qayyum would preside over the body to examine contents of websites reported or found to be offensive or containing anti-state material, officials were quoted as saying by Pakistani daily Dawn.
Representatives of ministries of interior, cabinet, information and broadcasting and security agencies would be part of the body that would operate within the parameters set out in the Amended Telecom Act 2006.
It would evaluate and examine website material besides entertaining public requests for blocking websites and decide cases on merit and advise the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to take appropriate action.
The decision to constitute the committee to oversee obnoxious websites had been taken following a growing number of public grievances regarding objectionable and hateful material being displayed at various websites.
The government has already banned all the websites relating to Balochistan nationalist struggle.
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