Facebook has announced that they are sending a team to Pakistan for talks on the issue of blasphemous content that is being published through the online networking site.
Pakistani government is under pressure from general public who are demanding concrete action form government to stop the blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and Islam.
Earlier Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said “The government will take a final decision on the functioning of social networking sites, including Facebook, Twitter, etc, in Pakistan within the next three to four days,”
It is being said that government has appointed a person from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to remain in contact with Facebook administration.
There are rumors that the discussion will only revolve around the method to block these content in Pakistan and no talk will be done to remove these content from social media. Previously on many occasions Facebook denied to block these content under “Freedom of Speech”.