our correspondent
\nPESHAWAR
\nA number of citizens held a protest demonstration against two highly popular mobile apps \u2013TikTok and Player Unknown\u2019s Battleground (PUBG) \u2013 in Peshawar on Sunday.
\nThe protestors were carrying banners with slogans inscribed on them against both apps and demanded that government should impose a permanent ban on their use in the country.
\nOne of the protesters told media that youth were wasting their precious time on TikTok and called on the government to immediately take notice of it and block access to the mobile app in the country to save the younger generation from these time-wasting activities.
\nOn July 1, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had temporarily banned PUBG in the country.
\nA PTA spokesman had said that a decision to permanently ban the PUBG would be made after consultations. \u201cWe have received many complaints regarding the game,\u201d he said adding that complainants termed the game as a timewaster besides causing a negative impact on the children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
our correspondent PESHAWAR A number of citizens held a protest demonstration against two highly popular mobile apps \u2013TikTok and Player Unknown\u2019s Battleground (PUBG) \u2013 in Peshawar on Sunday. The protestors were carrying banners with slogans inscribed on them against both apps and demanded that government should impose a permanent ban on their use in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"\n