{"id":80140,"date":"2025-07-11T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=80140"},"modified":"2025-07-11T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T11:14:18","slug":"islamabad-court-suspends-decision-to-block-matiullah-jan-asad-toors-youtube-channels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad-court-suspends-decision-to-block-matiullah-jan-asad-toors-youtube-channels\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad court &#8216;suspends&#8217; decision to block Matiullah Jan, Asad Toor\u2019s YouTube channels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"brxe-c4443e\" class=\"brxe-text news-content\">\n<p>ISLAMABAD: Days after a local court in Islamabad ordered to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nccia-moves-to-block-27-youtube-channels-for-campaigning-against-state-institutions\/\">block 27 YouTube channels<\/a>, primarily of journalists, the District and Sessions Court has officially reversed the ban on YouTube channels of several journalists.<\/p>\n<p>In a verdict on July 11, Additional Sessions Judge Afzal Majoka revoked the ban on\u00a0the YouTube channels of journalists Matiullah Jan (MJTV) and Asad Toor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"code-block code-block-5\">In a post on X, journalist Toor wrote, &#8220;<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">In a big victory, Additional session judge Afzal Majoka SUSPENDS judicial magistrate Abbas Shah&#8217;s order to ban YouTube<\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> channels, &#8216;Asad Toor Uncensored&#8217; and &#8216;<\/span>Matiullah Jan MJ<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">tv'&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a>: In a big victory, Additional session judge Afzal Majoka \u201cSUSPENDS\u201d judicial magistrate Abbas Shah order to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a> ban youtube channels Asad Toor UNCENSORED and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Matiullahjan919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Matiullahjan919<\/a> MJtv. We are honoured to represented by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/riasataliazad24?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@riasataliazad24<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zainabjanjua1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zainabjanjua1<\/a>,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NTWujjYRSz\">pic.twitter.com\/NTWujjYRSz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Asad Ali Toor (@AsadAToor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsadAToor\/status\/1943566006527369302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on July 8, Judicial Magistrate Abbas Shah\u00a0ordered the blocking of 27 YouTube channels belonging to several journalists and the opposition party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), under the Pre\u00advention of Electronic Cri\u00admes Act (PECA).<\/p>\n<p>The order came after the National Cyber Crimes Investigation Agency (NCCIA) moved to the court against the channels for allegedly airing anti-state content and spreading \u201cfalse, misleading and fake\u201d information.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube channels in question belonged to journalists Imran Riaz Khan, Siddique Jaan, Orya Maqbool Jan, Mattiullah Jan, Asad Toor, Ahmad Noorani, Wajahat Saeed, and many others. The official YouTube channel of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his party channel, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), were also on the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Days after a local court in Islamabad ordered to block 27 YouTube channels, primarily of journalists, the District and Sessions Court has officially reversed the ban on YouTube channels of several journalists. In a verdict on July 11, Additional Sessions Judge Afzal Majoka revoked the ban on\u00a0the YouTube channels of journalists Matiullah Jan (MJTV) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30049,24350,29979,28866],"class_list":["post-80140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-asad-toor-youtube-channel","tag-matiullah-jan","tag-youtube-channels","tag-youtube-channels-blocked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80140"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80148,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80140\/revisions\/80148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}