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Published 18 Mar, 2024 01:30pm

PTI’s Raoof Hasan decries ‘shameful ban’ on X for a month, calls for immediate restoration

PTI spokesperson Raoof Hasan has termed it “shameful that X has remained blocked in the country for over one month now.”

“We fully endorse 28 civil society organisations’ demand for immediate removal of ban on the social media platform allowing free flow of information as should be the case in a democratic country,” he wrote in a post on X.

The statement by organisations had said: “We urge the incoming government, regulators and other public bodies to recognise that any action that affects the flow of information and limits has a direct and lingering impact on citizens’ human rights including the right to political participation.”

Signatories include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Reporters Without Borders, the Pakistan Press Foundation and the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists.

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