So far it only appears to have been reported in the Pakistani news, but according to the Pakistani Interior Ministry, Facebook will be sending a delegation to investigate allegedly blasphemous and objectionable content on the website . The move from the social media giant apparently comes after the government threatened to ban Facebook in the country, something it last did in 2010 when I wrote about it . This is Dawn’s report on the latest:
The government had approached Facebook earlier this week regarding access to the records of three controversial pages accused of spreading blasphemous content, the director general of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Mazhar Kakakhail had said .
The issue comes at a moment when the Islamabad High Court (IHC) is hearing a petition filed by Salman Shahid. Interestingly, Dawn explains the case this way: