Lead guitarist of ‘LaaL’ band Taimur Rahman has said that the Facebook fan-page of ‘LaaL’ is now accessible to the people visiting it from Pakistan. In his tweet Taimur Rahman said the following.

On Wednesday 4th of June 2014, it was discovered by ‘LaaL’ the band management that their Facebook fan-page having more than 400,000 likes has been restricted in Pakistan and no one from Pakistan has been able to see the content of the page. Dr. Taimur Rahman alleged Pakistan Telecommunication Authority of this. PTA denied it but the statement of Facebook spokeswoman produced doubts that PTA is behind all the banned fan-pages of Facebook during which many huge pages with hundreds of thousand likes were getting banned in Pakistan.

LaaL is known for its progressive political discussion where a huge number of people come and discuss the issues related to different social and political issues.

Some other famous fan-pages affected by this banning spree of Facebook are  ‘Pakistani.meem’ and ‘Taalibansarezalimans’ and they are still not accessible in Pakistan.

Ban of LaaL Facebook fan-page was noted and New York Times has given coverage to this issue as well as stated by a tweet of Dr. Taimur Rahman.

Indian leftist liberal newspaper ‘The Hindu’ also highlighted this issue. Dr. Taimur Rahman will be appearing on Capital TV today on 8 PM and he tweeted that he will give proof of PTA’s involvement in restricting the access of the page to Pakistani viewers.   

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