Google and Apple have synonymously banned seven applications in Pakistan that were developed by members of the Ahmadi community in the United States of America.
According to sources close to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), these apps have been banned because they repeatedly shared blasphemous content despite complaints from Muslim clerics across the country.
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As per reports, three of the controversial apps contain fabricated Arabic text allegedly found in the Holy Quran and commentary from the Ahmadi perspective.
While the apps are still available on app stores in other countries, the PTA is waiting for Google to remove the other four apps that include an FAQ on Ahmadi eschatology (unverified) and a weekly Urdu-language news magazine.
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The PTA had issued new rules in 2020 for the regulation of social media after backlash from renowned Muslim clerics over the propagation of illegal content. These rules now allow the authority to censor content that could either harm the government or threaten the sanctity of Islam in any way.
Via Buzzfeed
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Where is Apps List ? Name Link Etc :
What a lame blog. Atleast you could have given some app names. Just coping news is not reporting.
App nay list jaan k karna Kiya hay?
Simple to avoid the same and other applications from the developer
It’s good not to disclose names of app. Either our people may download these apps and ranks up them top. Every one of us shouldn’t become aalim and discuss individually. Alhamdulillah we have qualified aalim and mufti, they could handle it carefully.
Exactly, it’s better they didn’t reveal the app names
Scared someone might like to verify and check why they should be banned? Dont trust your countrymen/women?
Ahmedis are non Muslims so they can not use the name of Quran and Hazrat Muhammad (Saw)
Adults need to be treated as such by governments, not like imbeciles. We are well capable of deciding what to download and what not to. All you do by banning is justify your salaries and insult everyone’s intelligence and right to decide what is good for them and what is not.
List b bta khotay
‘Fabricated texts’ ? That sounds more like Pakistani Mullahs than like Ahmadis. Could we have a quotation please?
Ahmedis are non non Muslims so they can not use the name of Quran and Hazrat Muhammad (Saw)
Good
Pakistani laws apply in Pakistan only.