ISLAMABAD: Video-sharing platform TikTok has taken down around 30 million videos in Pakistan for violating its community guidelines, the company said on Tuesday, underscoring its resolve to effectively combat violations.
TikTok, a social media app that allows users to create and share short-form videos, disclosed in its report for the second quarter of the year the platform had become extremely popular among younger generations, with over a billion active users worldwide.
The Q2 2024 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report detailed TikTok’s approach to content moderation in Pakistan, ensuring transparency into content generation in the South Asian country.
“The report reveals that over 30,709,744 videos were removed from TikTok in Pakistan in the latest reporting period as the platform continues to strengthen its content moderation systems to safeguard its diverse community,” TikTok said on Tuesday.
“Key findings show that 99.5 percent of these videos were proactively removed before users reported them, with 97 percent taken down within 24 hours.”
This highlighted TikTok’s commitment to ensure a “safer platform” for Pakistani users by removing harmful content before receiving any complaints, it said, adding that a total of 178, 827,465 videos were removed this year.
The platform continued to prioritize and enhance automated moderation technology which helped remove 144,430,133 videos and underscored the TikTok’s “innovative use of its detection technology to eliminate harmful content in real-time,” according to the report.
“With a proactive detection rate now at 98.2 percent, TikTok is more efficient than ever at addressing harmful content before users encounter it,” the platform said.
“The report also highlights a 50 percent reduction in the number of restored videos, reinforcing the accuracy and effectiveness of TikTok’s content moderation systems.”
This is not the first time that TikTok has removed videos from Pakistan. It took down approximately 20 million videos in Pakistan for violating community guidelines in the first quarter of this year.
In the past, Pakistani authorities have banned the video-sharing service several times, with the first ban instituted in October 2020 over what was described as widespread complaints about allegedly “immoral, obscene, and vulgar” content on the app.
The service has been prohibited from operating in the country thrice for more than 15 months since then. In November 2021, a Pakistani court finally reversed the ban after TikTok assured the government it would control the spread of objectionable content.
TikTok says removed 30 million videos in Pakistan for violating its guidelines
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TikTok says removed 30 million videos in Pakistan for violating its guidelines
- The video-sharing platform made the disclosure in its report for second quarter of this year
- Key findings show 99.5 percent of videos were proactively removed before users reported them
Ex-PM Imran Khan lawyers move Pakistan court for his release on medical grounds
- Khan was sentenced to 17 years in prison in a case involving illegal retention of state gifts he received as PM
- The development comes as an opposition protest seeking Khan’s transfer to a private hospital enters the second day
ISLAMABAD: Lawyers of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan have moved a Pakistani high court to suspend his 17-year prison term in a graft case and release the ex-premier on grounds of his deteriorating health, Khan’s party said on Saturday.
The development follows a rare prison visit earlier this week by Barrister Salman Safdar, appointed as amicus curiae by the Supreme Court, to assess Khan’s health and living conditions at Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail. In his report, Safdar stated the ex-premier had suffered a significant loss of sight in his right eye.
The report sparked a protest by an alliance of opposition parties, the Tehreek-e-Tahafuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan (TTAP), which also includes members of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, at Parliament House in Islamabad, with the protesters demanding Khan’s transfer from Adiala Jail to Al-Shifa Hospital for treatment.
The petition filed by Khan’s lawyers in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) seeks suspension of a Dec. 20, 2025 judgment by a special court involving illegal retention of state gifts, arguing that “continued incarceration of the Petitioner during pendency of the Appeal would result in grave miscarriage of justice.”
“The filing argues that the judgment is under substantive legal challenge and requests that the appellate court suspend the sentence until the appeal is decided, a remedy available under Pakistani law when serious questions are raised about the conviction,” Khan’s PTI party said in a statement on Saturday.
According to the petition filed by Barrister Safdar, a specialist at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) diagnosed “severe damage to the Petitioner’s right eye caused by a blood clot, leaving him with only fifteen percent (15 percent) vision in the affected eye.”
“[This] medical complication is of such gravity and seriousness that the same cannot be treated inside the jail premises,” the petition read.
The development came as the opposition sit-in at parliament entered its second day on Saturday. Local media reported the Khan supporters had also blocked the Hazara motorway in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, ruled by his PTI party.
“This sit-in will continue until Imran Khan is transferred to Al-Shifa Hospital,” the opposition alliance said on X.
Khan, 73, has been in custody since August 2023. This petition seeks to suspend his December conviction on charges of “criminal breach of trust” and corruption related to a jewelry set. He was sentenced to 10 years for criminal breach of trust and seven years under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The petition represents the latest chapter in a long-running legal battle for the former cricket star-turned-politician. Since his removal from office in 2022, Khan has faced a barrage of cases.
His legal team argues the “present prosecution constitutes yet another continuation of this pattern” of “unprecedented political victimization.” The government says the courts are free to decide on legal matters.
On Friday, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said there would be no negligence with regard to Khan’s treatment.
“Medical report will be compiled again, the chief justice of the Supreme Court is himself monitoring this case,” he said.
“Wherever it will be requested, Imran Khan’s eye will be examined at.”
