Pakistani court issues notices to information ministry, telecom authority over X ban
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani high court on Tuesday issued notices to the country’s information ministry and its telecommunication authority on a plea challenging the ban on social media platform X, local media widely reported.
X first went down on Feb. 17 when a government official confessed to manipulating votes in Pakistan’s Feb. 8 general election. The admission came as former prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and other political parties staged protests countrywide, alleging the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) had…