Pakistan, Feb. 18 -- The Awami Workers Party, on Saturday, filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court against the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)for blocking its official website. The petition also urges the court to safeguard the fundamental rights of freedom on the internet and direct PTA to monitor and block online content in strict accordance with the law.

Previously, AWP's website (http://awamiworkersparty.org) was found to be suddenly blocked on June 3 last year in Pakistan, just a month ahead of the general polls of 2018/ Reports from various digital censorship experts including Digital Rights Foundation and Observatory of Online Network Interference confirmed that the website was blocked as a result of government cen...