Bikini - Pakistani court ordered the authorities to block access to social networking site Facebook.
Court order issued after a group of lawyers petitioned the Islamic Lawyers Movement against the competition to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
Judge Lahore High Court, Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry ordered the department to block Facebook communication until May 31 and filed an answer to a petition on the same date.
The judge also instructed the foreign minister of Pakistan to raise the issue of this caricature to the international level.
After the court makes its ruling, the telecommunications department of Pakistan has requested all Internet service providers to block access to Facebook right now.
However, parties who filed the petition said blocking part of it is not possible and must be entirely disconnected.
Islamic Lawyers Movement in Pakistan's objection to the race draw caricatures of the Prophet even though Facebook has put a message that it "did not mean to malign Muslims in general".
"We just wanted to demonstrate to the extremists who threaten to disrupt the people because they draw the Prophet Mohammad that we are not afraid," according to a statement on the information "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day".
Furthermore, they are not afraid.
"They can not snatch freedom of speech in a way to frighten so quiet," added the statement.
Facebook information listed on the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the figures of other faiths, including Hindus and Christians as well as the various comments that support or criticize Islam.
Various elements of the Pakistani people rallied in front of parliament opposed to Facebook, while a number of Islamic parties reportedly will hold a similar demonstration.
Card issuance Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers in 2005 sparked a wave of protests in many Islamic countries and in Pakistan killed five people at that time.
Court order issued after a group of lawyers petitioned the Islamic Lawyers Movement against the competition to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.
Judge Lahore High Court, Ejaz Ahmed Chaudhry ordered the department to block Facebook communication until May 31 and filed an answer to a petition on the same date.
The judge also instructed the foreign minister of Pakistan to raise the issue of this caricature to the international level.
After the court makes its ruling, the telecommunications department of Pakistan has requested all Internet service providers to block access to Facebook right now.
However, parties who filed the petition said blocking part of it is not possible and must be entirely disconnected.
Islamic Lawyers Movement in Pakistan's objection to the race draw caricatures of the Prophet even though Facebook has put a message that it "did not mean to malign Muslims in general".
"We just wanted to demonstrate to the extremists who threaten to disrupt the people because they draw the Prophet Mohammad that we are not afraid," according to a statement on the information "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day".
Furthermore, they are not afraid.
"They can not snatch freedom of speech in a way to frighten so quiet," added the statement.
Facebook information listed on the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and the figures of other faiths, including Hindus and Christians as well as the various comments that support or criticize Islam.
Various elements of the Pakistani people rallied in front of parliament opposed to Facebook, while a number of Islamic parties reportedly will hold a similar demonstration.
Card issuance Prophet Mohammad in Danish newspapers in 2005 sparked a wave of protests in many Islamic countries and in Pakistan killed five people at that time.
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