The Ministry of Information Technology on Monday order the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to issue directives to Internet Services Providers (ISPs) to unblock the website across the country.
According to local media, internet users across Pakistan will be able to access the website within the next 48 hours.
The development comes days after the PTA told the Supreme Court in a report that it was now possible to remove objectionable videos from the website after Google launched a localized of Youtube for Pakistan.
PTA had told the court that that there was no reason left to continue blocking the website’s IP in the country as objectionable content had been removed from the localised version of the website.
The government had blocked YouTube in Pakistan on September 17, 2012, after receiving information about continuing access to a a contentious blasphemous video created and uploaded in the United States on YouTube.
