This report is submitted on behalf of the following CSOs:<\/p>\n
Audio Visual Center
\nAURTAZAAD: Women\u2019s Research & Publications
\nBright Education Society
\nChristian Study Centre
\nCLAAS
\nCWS-P\/A
\nDar \u2013ul-Mussarat \u2013Raiwind Diocese
\nData Line Service
\nDiocese of Raiwind \u2013 Church of Pakistan
\nExecutive Board of Methodist Church in Pakistan
\nFilms d’Art
\nInteractive Resource Centre
\nJustitiaet Pax Netherlands
\nNational Organization for Working Communities
\nNritaal
\nPakistan Ecumenical Network
\nPakistan Fisher Folk Forum
\nPunjab Lok Rahat
\nPunjab Lok Sujag
\nPVDP
\nThe DOER Trust<\/p>\n
Freedom of Opinion and Expression<\/p>\n
In 2009, the interior ministry through a decree banned all jokes about the president Asif Ali Zardari.
\nThe country\u2019s interior minister, Rehman Malik, announced that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had been requested to trace electronically-transmitted jokes which slandered the political leadership of the country under the new Cyber Crimes Act. <\/p>\n
In 2009 Pakistan renewed the ban on Baloch political, cultural and musical websites. It is widely believed that the Pakistani authorities have blocked Baloch websites in an attempt to hide gross human rights violations which have been carried out in Balochistan. In May 2010, the Pakistani government shut down Facebook and banned YouTube over its sacrilegious content in what would continue to be a wider internet crackdown. In November 2011, moves towards censoring mobile text traffic were in the pipeline however, this was never followed through. In November 2011, Pakistani cable television operators began blocking the BBC World News. Thus Pakistan\u2019s claim on the freedom of expression remains problematic.<\/p>\n
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