Following facebook YouTube website also blocked

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority after blocking of facebook has also blocked the popular video sharing website YouTube in a bid to contain blasphemous material.

The blockade came hours after the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directed Internet service providers to stop access to social network Facebook indefinitely because of an online competition to draw the blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Mohammad.

PTA sources told that its facing severe difficulty in blocking the sites as modern technology is required to block any Internet sites and thousands of its links but in next two days all websites and their links would be blocked carrying blasphemous caricatures..

According to PTA the blocking of the two websites would cut up to 25% of total Internet traffic in Pakistan.

The authority has set up a crisis cell to monitor such contents and announced that toll free number 0800-55055 and email address complaint@pta.gov.pk can be used to notify it of URLs where objectionable material is available.