TikTok Banned In Pakistan

After India, Pakistan also joined the group of countries banning TikTok, a Chinese social media and short video platform mobile application.

On 11 October 2020 Telecommunication Authority of Pakistan passed a statement that there have been a number of complaints against TikTok app from different segments of the country against unnecessary, invaluable and disgraceful contents. Before banning it, they have addressed these issues with the app’s officials but after getting no response from them, they came out with a decision of banning this mobile app.

This app has been a matter of concern for other nations as well due to its data leaking reports being viral all over the world. After India, USA’s president Donald Trump has also tried to ban this app from his country but was unsuccessful in his attempt due to some reasons. But TikTok has faced occasional bans in several other countries like Indonesia and Bangladesh due to its privacy concern.

In Pakistan, there were almost 20 million active users of TikTok in a month. Being a short video and meme video sharing platform, many of the conservative Muslims of Pakistan felt that it was very offensive against the religion and they thought that it would have a very bad impact on their society. There were also many videos featuring underage teens showing off their weapons and this was just growing day by day.

Pakistan’s PM Imran Khan also criticized TikTok as promoting “obscenity and vulgarity.”