Search engines: Malik threatens to block Google, YouTube

Says they could be shut down if they did not corporate with authorities investigating crimes and terrorism.

Popular internet search engine Google and websites like YouTube could be shut down in Pakistan if they did not cooperate with authorities investigating crimes and incidents of terrorism, Interior Minister Rehman Malik has warned.


Malik made the remarks at the headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency here while interacting with reporters, Press Trust of India reported.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19th,  2011.