ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan has banned Wikipedia after threatening the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia with "sacrilegious content," according to the Wikimedia Foundation on Saturday.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Pakistan has banned Wikipedia after threatening the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia with "sacrilegious content," according to the Wikimedia Foundation on Saturday.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered authorities to unblock Wikipedia with immediate effect, days after the countrys telecommunication watchdog banned the online encyclopedia for its failure to remove offensive and blasphemous content. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said it blocked Wikipedia because a 48-hour deadline to remove the content was ignored, according to a spokesperson.