The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has blocked over 1.1 million social media accounts for allegedly sharing illegal content and running a hate campaign against state institutions.
It received complaints for up to 1.2 million social media IDs and blocked 1.13 million of them, while around 10,500 were declared non-guilty, and action is underway against the remaining ones.
According to reports, the regulator took action after it received complaints from the public regarding illicit content on social media.
Below is a table showing statistics of PTA’s action against a massive number of social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, etc.
| Social Media Platform | Total Accounts | Blocked | Action Under-Process | Non-Guilty |
| Miscellaneous/Others | 884,835 | 878,300 | 6,273 | 262 |
| 134,549 | 112,398 | 17,548 | 4,603 | |
| 63,233 | 31,870 | 28,070 | 3,293 | |
| TikTok | 65,122 | 63,632 | 1,407 | 83 |
| YouTube | 42,832 | 36,138 | 4,533 | 2,161 |
| 10,919 | 8,078 | 2,671 | 170 | |
| Snack Video | 3,775 | 3,602 | 71 | 6 |
| Likee | 1,036 | 965 | – | – |
| Dailymotion | 576 | 531 | – | – |
In a separate statement, PTA said that it is working with telecom operators to ensure timely restoration of telecom services in the flood-affected regions.
Reportedly, 3,386 sites were damaged due to floods and around 3,251 of them have been restored so far. It said,
Work is in progress for complete restoration of telecom services in flood affected areas on top priority.
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Yar koi tu acha kaam ker lo. PTA ne websites block ker di, pta ne sims block ker di, pta ne phones block ker deye or pta vpn block kerny ja raha, bhai North Korea banny ja rahy ho? Jis ne hack kerna hota hai hai wo PM house se bhee cheezain nikal leta hai. Let the people breath
PTA is working like Censor Board during Martial Law Rules.
Right decided Blocked All fak account