Pakistan opens up access to YouTube

Pakistan has announced that they are opening up access to the Google owned video sharing service YouTube.

However, they have refused to take the blame for the worldwide access problems to the service due to this blockage.

Shahzada Alam Malik, head of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority said in a statement on these claims: “We are not hackers. Why would we do that?”

He said that the problems faced by users to access the service must be due to some other reasons.

Abdullah Riar, Pakistan’s minister for information technology and telecommunications spoke about the offending clip hosted on the service: “We are already in the spotlight on the issue of intolerance and extremism and terrorism and this is something that somebody is doing by design to excite and insinuate Islamic sentiments.”