Oh no, YouTube is banned in Pakistan. I’m like a daily user of YouTube and I almost watch all my favorite programs and videos there but what to do now . It is banned and this is really sad .

The popular video sharing site ‘YouTube’ has been blocked by all ISPs in Pakistan on PTA directive. It is, reportedly, the second most visited website on the internet trailing Google itself, which owns YouTube.

This leads to a dark recollection of the blanket blocking of the blogspot.com domain which rendered all blogs hosted on Blogspot inaccessible for the majority of Pakistani users who didn’t knew how to utilize proxy servers and about bypassing such restrictions.

An email from Micronet Broadband Limited [MBL], a leading ISP in Islamabad follows:

Dear Valued Customer:

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (www.pta.gov.pk)
has directed all ISPs of the country to block access
to www.youtube.com web site for containing
blasphemous web content/movies.

The site would remain blocked till further orders from
PTA. Meanwhile, Internet users can write to
youtube.com to remove the objectionable web
content/movies because this removal would enable
the authorities to order un-blocking of this web
site.

Hello Friends,

Hope you all having a great time in your life. Yeah, this is my first post here, where I would write and share about my blah blah stuff.

A little about me, I’m Zair from Pakistan. By profession I’m a web designer / developer. Currently working at a company named Creative Chaos (Pvt.) Ltd. I handle the XHTML / CSS based websites there. Now I’m also leading a team there which is an honor for me.

Besides from work, I love listening to music and I like to do photography in my spare time. So do give a visit to my flickr page.

Will add more about me and myself here later but I would like to inform you that this website is still in Under Construction process. So you would be seeing some major or minor updates in future. I’m signing out now.

Have a good life ahead.

Love,
-Zair