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Sat May 18 14:21:44 SAST 2013

Pakistan PM orders suspension of YouTube over anti-Islam film

Reuters | 17 September, 2012 18:43
New Pakistan prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf.
Image by: STRINGER/PAKISTAN / REUTERS

Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered the suspension of YouTube in the country over a video made in the United States which mocks the Prophet Mohammad and has enraged the Islamic world.

Ashraf's office said in a statement that the Ministry of Information had been ordered to block YouTube so that the "blasphemous" video could not be viewed.

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