PESHAWAR: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been notified by the Peshawar High Court (PHC) to respond to a petition requesting an outright ban on the video-sharing app TikTok due to “blasphemous and immoral” material.
Because authorities believe the app promotes immoral content, the video-sharing platform was originally banned in Pakistan in October 2020 and has since been banned at least three more times.
Advocate Imran Khan filed a petition asking the court to order the respondents to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), PTA, and Ministry of Information to permanently ban TikTok from Pakistan due to consistent violations of the law and rules.
The request was considered on Thursday by a court made up of Chief Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim and Justice Sahibzada Asadullah.
Additionally, he asked the court to order the respondents to refrain from allowing any future applications that compromise Pakistani people’s moral and ethical standards.
Although social media has its advantages, he pointed out that in Pakistan and other similar nations, certain social media platforms have made it possible to say anything that is insensitive to morals, decency, or Islamic principles.
According to the petition, “TikTok has not sufficiently optimized its system to prohibit such illegal, hateful, unethical, and vulgar information, despite being a publicly available application.
