INTERIOR Minister Rehman Malik, on the advice of the Prime Minister, did well in restoring access to social networking website Twitter which was kept blocked by the Government for about eight hours. It is, however, lamentable that the management of the Twitter did not listen to the request of the Pakistan Government to remove anti-Pakistan and blasphemous contents from the website...
No doubt, it is an era of freedom of expression and denying of access to social networking websites sparks criticism from advocates of freedom of information and expression as was the case with the blocking of the Twitter by the Ministry of Information Technology on legitimate concerns. Pakistan has blindly been following Western values and cultures and therefore, some quarters and circles are always in the forefront of campaign to malign the country and go for a free for all licence to injure feelings of others. Freedom of expression and information is OK but how can this give one the authority to ridicule and attack belief and feelings of others. The West talks about liberty yet this liberty is confined to its own citizens while people living in other parts of the world or followers of other religions especially Islam are continuously targeted as part of the wilful mischievous campaign to paint this great religion in dark. Every now and then websites like Facebook and Twitter as well as newspapers and magazines in the West are widely misused to injure sensitivities of over 1.5 billion Muslims. The West never gets tired of talking about harmony among different faiths but turns a blind eye to fundamental requirements for the purpose. Apart from Muslim Governments that should take up the issue at different regional and global forums, it is also duty of Muslims to rebut and counter such campaigns through latest means of communications and technology..
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