{"id":443788,"date":"2024-11-16T10:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=443788"},"modified":"2024-11-16T10:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T05:20:53","slug":"interior-ministry-demands-vpns-blockage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/interior-ministry-demands-vpns-blockage\/","title":{"rendered":"Interior Ministry demands VPNs blockage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims it is used by \u2018terrorists to facilitate violent activities\u2019<br \/>\nIslamabad<br \/>\nThe Interior Ministry on Friday asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block \u201cillegal VPNs\u201d across Pakistan, citing their use by terrorists to \u201cfacilitate violent activities\u201d and to \u201caccess pornographic and blasphemous content\u201d.<br \/>\nVirtual Private Networks, better known as VPNs, are widely used around the world to access content that may be inaccessible or blocked for internet users in their home country. In the case of Pakistanis, they are used to access X, among other restricted websites.<br \/>\nOn Wednesday, the PTA said that VPN usage would be restricted in the future to curb access to pornographic content, following a disruption that rendered VPNs dysfunctional across the country on Sunday.<br \/>\nIn a statement, the authority claimed it had so far blocked 100,183 URLs containing blasphemous content, as well as 844,008 pornographic websites. It also claimed that approximately 20 million attempts were made from within the country to access pornographic websites daily, which were blocked at the international gateway level.<br \/>\nThe statement by PTA highlighting its performance came a day after the Ministry of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony wrote to the regulator, asking it to block blasphemous and pornographic content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims it is used by \u2018terrorists to facilitate violent activities\u2019 Islamabad The Interior Ministry on Friday asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block \u201cillegal VPNs\u201d across Pakistan, citing their use by terrorists to \u201cfacilitate violent activities\u201d and to \u201caccess pornographic and blasphemous content\u201d. 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