By Asghar Ali Mubarak
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Monday decided to lift a temporary ban on the popular short video-sharing Chinese app TikTok.
A spokesperson for the authority confirmed that the decision was made following an assurance by the TikTok management to abide by Pakistan’s laws and block accounts uploading indecent and immoral content.
A notification regarding restoration of the app will be issued shortly, the spokesperson said.
On October 9, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had placed a ban on TikTok in the country.
The authority had in a statement cited “complaints from different segments of the society against immoral/indecent content on the video-sharing application” as the reason behind the move and added that it has issued instructions for blocking of the application.
