FIA, PTA told to report blasphemous content online.

Byline: Bakhtawar Mian

ISLAMABAD -- Senate Standing Committee on Interior chairman Senator Rehman Malik has taken serious notice of blasphemous material being circulated on social media and asked the Federal InvestiAgation Agency (FIA) and Pakistan TelecommuniAcation Authority (PTA) to take stern action against those generating and spreading blasphemous material on social media.

He directed the FIA and PTA to take up the matter with micro-blogging site Twitter and request immediate removal of the blasphemous content from the platform.

According to a notice issued by the committee secretary, Senator Malik had taken a serious notice of blasphemous material being circulated through a Twitter account @AneelaEhsan and few others on social media. Stern action be taken against the culprits, he said.

The committee members said the anti-Islam propaganda was against the UN Charter on interfaith harmony. The blasphemous material might create law and order situation in the...