ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on Wednesday announced it had blocked video-sharing app TikTok, the fourth time the platform has been banned in the South Asian nation over “inappropriate content.”
Earlier this month, Pakistani authorities blocked the popular TikTok app after a court ruling on a private citizen’s petition that accused the company of promoting obscenity.
“In the light of relevant provisions of Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016, PTA has blocked access to TikTok App and website in the country,” PTA said on Twitter. “The action has been taken due to continuous presence of inappropriate content on the platform and its failure to take such content down.”
Last month, TikTok said it had taken down more than six million videos from the app in Pakistan over three months.
Wildly popular among Pakistani youth, the Chinese-owned app has been shut down by authorities several times in the last year over “immoral content.”
Last month, the Sindh High Court ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to suspend the services of the video-sharing site on a citizen’s petition who said he was aggrieved by “immorality and obscenity” on the app. PTA blocked the app on June 30.
The ban was reversed after four days after PTA assured the court that the app’s content would be monitored.
On March 11, the Peshawar High Court had ordered the app be blocked in the country based on a petition alleging it had obscene content.
Last October, PTA blocked TikTok for similar reasons, but reversed its decision after 10 days saying the company’s owners, China-based ByteDance, had agreed to moderate content in Pakistan.
TikTok blocked in Pakistan, again, over ‘inappropriate content’
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TikTok blocked in Pakistan, again, over ‘inappropriate content’
- Pakistan telecoms regulator says app and website banned for failure to take down obscene content
- Last month, TikTok said it had removed more than six million videos from the app in Pakistan in three months
Security forces kill four militants in Pakistan’s volatile southwest, military says
- Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by land area bordering Iran and Afghanistan, has long been the site of a low-level insurgency
- The Balochistan government has recently established a threat assessment center to strengthen early warning, prevent ‘terrorism’ incidents
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani security forces gunned down four militants in an intelligence-based operation in the southwestern Balochistan province, the military said on Tuesday.
The operation was conducted in Balochistan’s Kalat district on reports about the presence of militants, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pakistani military’s media wing.
The “Indian-sponsored militants” were killed in an exchange of fire during the operation, while weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the deceased, who remained actively involved in numerous militant activities.
“Sanitization operations are being conducted to eliminate any other Indian-sponsored terrorist found in the area,” the ISPR said in a statement.
There was no immediate response from New Delhi to the statement.
Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest province by land area bordering Iran and Afghanistan, has long been the site of a low-level insurgency involving Baloch separatist groups, including the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and the Balochistan Liberation Front (BLF).
Pakistan accuses India of supporting these separatist militant groups and describes them as “Fitna Al-Hindustan.” New Delhi denies the allegation.
The government in Balochistan has also established a state-of-the-art threat assessment center to strengthen early warning and prevention against “terrorism” incidents, a senior official said this week.
“Information that was once scattered is now shared and acted upon in time, allowing the state to move from reacting after incidents to preventing them before they occur,” Balochistan Additional Chief Secretary Hamza Shafqaat wrote on X.
The development follows a steep rise in militancy-related deaths in Pakistan in 2025. According to statistics released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) last month, combat-related deaths in 2025 rose 73 percent to 3,387.
These included 2,115 militants, 664 security forces personnel, 580 civilians and 28 members of pro-government peace committees, the think tank said.
