Before you all thank the government and bring out your celebration hats, don't forget this should have happened a long time ago and is a basic right. The government hasn't done us any special favours

If the very reason for imposing this ban was addressed by the youtube administrator then the ban removal is OK otherwise it shows the weakness of the gov't. In this case no one will take us seriously in future.

Thanks God! Finally we will be able to access educational tutorials without any proxy server :)

What an issue to be united upon. Hats off Youtube should be filtered.

@Masoud: No one takes us seriously either way.

@Masoud No one is taking us serious now either. Its all happened just because of our stupid mindset. This was us muslims who advertised for this video. Ever been to Youtube? there are millions of such videos and garbage laying there no one knows.

Good news and thank you Shazia, a courageous lawmaker.We are living in a modern world.Please let us live.

Great move.

We dont have other problem as terrorism, loadshedding, water shortage, gas shortage etc etc...........Ban on youtube was the biggest problem at the present. Thanks to the MNAs to address the real problem of this nation. Bravo!

Great news... now people have more reasons to get online and waste their time. Thank you Shazia for thinking about us to stay online and not worry about anything else in our lives such as prosperity through jobs and education. Governments have authorized companies to give night packages so everyone can stay up all night, waste more time online by watching videos and give us 12 hour of load shedding so no one can even sleep properly. To be honest there is not any department of Pakistan which is doing well other than the media groups which we all know is more of a circus entertainment then actual news. At the end I thank myself and all my fellow Pakistanis for electing such great leaders who are keenly concerned about the well beings of us Pakistanis.

Trying to put a lid on information even offensive one will not work in the long run. Government and mullahs should stay out of controlling people's thoughts, minds and freedom to choose. Freedom of information is toxic to the feudal control freaks.

@Sajjad You have a choice, You don't have to watch it. Why do you think everyone else should follow your logic??

@Salim A

I agree wholeheartedly.

To begin with, only the access to the movie should have been blocked, there was no need to block the entire you tube. Emotional reactions always bring disaster.

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@Sajjad: No one is forcing you to stay awake all night or waste your time in any other way. And it isn't your business what others do with their time.

The ban on you tube is arguably the most foolish act any politician did. It's the equivalent of trying to push water uphill with your bare hands.

A great tool for educating is banned, even though everyone found their way around it.

Lifting ban on Utube is welcome!

Is it possible to pass a majority resolution on feudalism also? I do realize that this is impossible, but at least we should give it a try.

@Changazi Ban on youtube IS a real world problem. Something that hinders education, research, learning.. is a real world problem.

@Salim and @MP there is a saying by Ray Bradbury,

While Youtube is blocked hundreds of radical Islamist website flourishing without any government restriction promoting hatred and Jihad against its own citizen. What Pakistan has achieved so for. Nada !!

The report mentions 'unanimous' passing of resolution but leaves out the critical information on the number of lawmakers who voted.

Something is fishy here. I seriously doubt the religious parties voting for the lifting of the ban.

@Masoud Are you for real? Nobody takes us seriously right now either. Get over your inflated ego. The world is moving on. Either get with it or fade away trying to sound important.

All these discussion are useless...........

For those who care have proxy servers and for those who don't care; well they just don't care. So a moot point except perhaps for a bad international repute that we really don't want going any lower.

Despite the removal of the contentious video and claims by the government, the video-sharing remains banned in the country. Partial Freedom ......