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PTA committee with representatives of civil society, mobile phone operators to decide on final list.

Regulatory authority’s ‘content filtering’ campaign meets with widespread derision.

Communications authorities should focus on providing better services rather than acting as a moral policing force.

PPP’s Salim Khokhar reminds house of how Christians had protested when American priest was in the news.

Mobile operators defer implementing ban, say they are seeking further clarification from the telecom authority.

Networks must also submit monthly reports on implementation of the ban.

Over 1,500 English and Urdu words to be filtered in SMSs according to PTA letter floating online.