Wikipedia Unblocked in Pakistan After Prime Minister’s Intervention

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Pakistan has unblocked Wikipedia in the South Asian market, three days after the online encyclopedia was censored in the nation over noncompliance with removing what the local regulator deemed as “sacrilegious” content.

Shehbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, directed the unblocking order, calling the censorship on Wikipedia “not a suitable measure to restrict access to some objectionable contents / sacrilegious matter on it.” “The unintended consequences of this blanket ban, therefore, outweigh its benefits,” Sharif added.

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