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failed to perform its statutory duties, as such direction be issued to the PTA to block the above said
film on UTube website and refrain in future as well for allowing such material."
5. Office has inquired from the office of PTA and has gathered information that the Chairman, PTA is
out of town and is likely to be back to Islamabad today. Be that as it may, on having seen the material,
which has been published in newspapers i.e. The News, Dawn, etc. and the material, which is going
on as per the reporting, we direct the Chairman PTA to immediately block the offending material on
UTube website and on any other website, referred to hereinabove. This order be communicated to the
Chairman PTA during course of the day. He is directed to submit report to the Registrar today
positively for our perusal in Chambers. (Emphasis supplied.)
This Court has been told that said order of the apex Court still holds the field, and provides guidelines to this
court and all the concerned authorities in such like matters.
21. At this stage it is made clear that if the authorities could not succeed to remove the blasphemous content,
as required by the Constitution and the other laws applicable in the country, all such accounts or even the
information system involved in above pointed nefarious activities, shall be blocked at once as undertaken by
the Director General PTA, present in the court.
22. For what has been discussed above, in view of the substantial and adequate steps taken by the state in the
matter, the learned counsel for the petitioner have expressed their satisfaction. This Court would only observe
that it is never too late to make right decisions. Since FIR has already been registered, the investigation shall
take the matter to its logical end. Therefore, this writ petition is disposed of in above terms, however, for
future eventualities, in furtherance and in addition to the directions earlier issued by this Court in the case
"Islamic Lawyers Movement through Tahir Farooq alias Allah Bakhsh Leghari v. Federation of Pakistan
through Secretary Establishment, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad and 3 others" (2012 CLC 1300), it is
directed that:
i) State functionaries shall keep in mind that PTA is an independent body in the light of its statute and
government at the most could issue instructions, that too within the parameters of law.
ii) A Bill be tabled before the Parliament for deliberations and decision about:
a) Amendment in section 37 of PECA to authorize PTA to block information system in case service
providers fail to remove blasphemous content;
b) Procedure for right of appeal, revision, review be provided to the individuals or the system
operators whose accounts, pages or systems are blocked by the authorities;
c) Where in section 9 of PECA, punishment for offences relating to terrorism, proscribed
organizations, etc. has been provided, punishment of sections 295 to 295C, P.P.C. may also be
introduced.
iii) Rules be framed under PECA, which are though required, yet have not been framed. This exercise
must be completed within three months from today;
iv) A cell in the foreign ministry shall be created to keep all the Islamic countries abreast of the efforts
and steps taken pursuant to the above referred meeting of the Ambassadors, which was chaired
by the Federal Interior Minister, Pakistan;
v) The Government shall adopt all necessary measures for enhancing technical expertise and
equipments of PTA authorities;
vi) It appears that FIA which is to investigate such like matters is not equipped with complete devices
and team of experts, hence, necessary steps including finance facility, be provided.
23. Since the annexures of the writ petition carry the material which is totally against our faith and belief, the
same cannot be made public. As such, the same shall be sealed by the Deputy Registrar (Judicial) of this
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