Despite ban, Pakistan gets access to YouTube due to technical glitch

Pakistan's Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman has said that the accessibility of Youtube in some regions of the country was due to a technical glitch which will soon be fixed.

According to Dawn News, senior official in the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) believes that YouTube became accessible through certain Internet Service Providers (ISPs) due to a technical fault.

The minister said that the news of unblocking will be announced officially. Rehman said that the issue was being addressed in the cyber crime bill and will be most likely approved by the government in two months. 

Meanwhile, the Twitterati was quick to jump at the opportunity.

YouTube is working. YouTube is working. #Pakistan

— Shiraz Hassan (@ShirazHassan) February 25, 2015

Meanwhile, Youtube was accessible in Pakistan due to a certain fault. Elsewhere, things get inaccessible due to faults. #OnlyInPakistan

— Imran Hunzai (@imranhunzai) February 28, 2015

Tisk Tisk Tisk , IT Ministry has once again trolled Pakistan with regards to Youtube

— Fawad Khalid Khan (@FawadKhalid) February 28, 2015

"Access to #Youtube is a technical fault in #Pakistan, which will be fixed." AND WE ARE IN THE 21st CENTURY :) pic.twitter.com/9erbh6T3TW

— Zeeshan Khattak (@khattak) February 28, 2015

Is Youtube available in Pakistan again? Or did Maryam Nawaz Sharif use a proxy and forget about it? Heh.

— Aditi (@Bacardidevi) February 27, 2015