Islamabad, February 08: Giving a major jolt to Pakistan, the social media giant Twitter rebuffed Pakistan's attempt to block an Indian news platform’s ground coverage on Balochistan on social media.

 

 

As per the private media house report, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has requested to gag a News9 Plus story, claiming that the content violates their law.

 

For unreserved, News9 Plus, India’s first news OTT platform, released two-part series ‘Balochistan: Bangladesh 2.0’, which investigates alleged gross human rights violations in the region as also the likely reasons for sudden attacks on Chinese nationals in Balochistan.

 

The documentary series describes the rise in alleged state-sponsored killings of the Baloch people. Strategic experts and geo-political observers have labelled the restive province a second Bangladesh, a reference to East Pakistan which broke away as an independent country in 1971.

 

 

 

PTA objected to the December 25 documentary series. Twitter contacted the Executive Editor of News9 Plus, on February 5 through the mail.

 

Following the answer of the editor, Twitter said they have not taken any action on the PTA objection at this time. “In the interest of transparency, we are writing to inform you that Twitter has received a request from PTA regarding your Twitter account that claims the following content violates the law of Pakistan. We have not taken any action on the reported content at this time as a result of this request,” the communication said.

 

Twitter also stated that they strongly believe in defending and respecting the voice of their users and it is their policy to notify the users of any legal request from an authorized entity they receive regarding the removal of content from their accounts.

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