Malik threatens to block Google,YouTube

Popular internet search engine Google and websites like YouTube could be shut down in Pakistan if they do not cooperate with authorities investigating crimes and incidents of terrorism,Interior Minister Rehman Malik warned on Sunday.

Malik made the remarks at the headquarters of the Federal Investigation Agency here. He urged the websites to extend help to authorities to exterminate terrorism.

The government would be compelled to block certain websites including YouTube and search engine Google if they did not extend cooperation to authorities, Malik said. The Taliban and other terrorist organisations are sharing intelligence through the internet and it is imperative to curb these activities,he said.