Blogging website Wordpress blocked?

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ISLAMABAD: Internet users across the country were surprised to find that popular blogging platform Wordpress.com was no longer accessible from Pakistan.

The website was inaccessible on several major internet service providers on Sunday, but there was no official word from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on whether the ban was official or not.

There was speculation that the closure was linked to security preparations ahead of the Pakistan Day parade, to be held on Monday for the first time in seven years. However, these reports could not be independently verified.

Also read: YouTube to remain blocked 'indefinitely' in Pakistan: officials

A PTA spokesperson, when contacted for confirmation, refused to comment on the development.

Wordpress is a blogging platform that also allows Internet users to create their own websites via easy-to-use templates. Thousands of Pakistanis and several Pakistan-based businesses use Wordpress to host their blogs and websites.

Published in Dawn March 23rd , 2015

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Santosh Menon

Mar 23, 2015 07:31am

Freedom of repression!

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Atif Khan

Mar 23, 2015 10:27am

The Supreme Court should take a sumo-moto action on this issue. By blocking WordPress and YouTube the govt. has deprived its citizens of knowledge, of education, of a basic right the constitution of Pakistan gives us .

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Javed USA

Mar 23, 2015 11:01am

Block everyone who does not agree with your views. This is called controlled freedom, where the big brother watches over everything.

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Muhammad Irfan

Mar 23, 2015 11:28am

Not blocked, I have checked, it can be opened...!!

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AKK

Mar 23, 2015 11:36am

You Tube Banned:: Pakistanis are forced to live in their Dream World only. Govt will do everything so that people will remain unaware about the National failures on every front and thus if facts are accessible to the citizens then they will start to live in a Virtual World only that their failed leaders want to show them

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Nasir-ud-din Soomro

Mar 23, 2015 11:37am

PTA doesn't understand value of these websites.

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M.Saeed

Mar 23, 2015 06:46pm

Blocking the YouTube indefinitely is a cyber-suicide of the Govt. It does not affect YouTube much but all the harm is to the Pakistanis.

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