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YouTube, a subsidiary of US internet giant Google, has been blocked in Pakistan since 2012.
Usman Riaz and Junaid Jamshed talk about the importance of the video-sharing website.
Banning YouTube goes against our image as a moderate, forward-looking and progressive country.
Interior Minister says he had the site unblocked, but the government re-blocked it.
Say authorities should not open the site until musicians’ copyrights are ensured.
The blanket ban, as some argue, has brought more bad than good.
Lack of effective regulatory environment emerges as biggest hurdle.
Rehman Malik tweeted on Friday that YouTube would be un-blocked in the following 24 hours.
PM Ashraf issues blocking orders briefly after the website was restored today.
“It is now for the prime minister to decide, if and when, the website has to be restored,” says a ministry...