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Pakistan lifts Facebook ban after page removed
By BABAR DOGAR
(AP)
LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after
officials from the social networking site apologized for a page deemed
offensive to Muslims and removed its contents, a top information
technology official said.
The move came almost two weeks after
Pakistan imposed the ban amid anger over a page that encouraged users
to post images of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. Many Muslims regard
depictions of the prophet, even favorable ones, as blasphemous.
"In
response to our protest, Facebook has tendered their apology and
informed us that all the sacrilegious material has been removed from
the URL," said Najibullah Malik, secretary of Pakistan's information
technology ministry, referring to the technical term for a Web page.
Facebook assured the Pakistani government that "nothing of this sort will happen in the future," Malik said.
Officials
from the website could not immediately be reached for comment. They
said earlier the contents of the "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" page
did not violate Facebook's terms.
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