An application has been filed before the Lahore High Court (LHC) praying desealing of FIR against Facebook owners and their arrests through Interpol. Applicant Advocate Muhammad Azhar Siddique prayed to the court to issue directions for the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to stop access to the blasphemous material on Internet in the country.
In his civil miscellaneous application filed in main petition seeking ban on Facebook, a social networking website, for hosting a competition of blasphemous caricatures. The petitioner prayed for directions to the Government of Pakistan to approach United Nations for implementation of Article 20(2) of the UN Covenant on Civil Political Rights through which religious hatred and material to incitement to discrimination and hostility shall be prohibited.