Pak Scan

Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologised for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents.

Pakistan lifts Facebook ban after apology from site:

Pakistan lifted a ban on Facebook on Monday after officials from the social networking site apologised for a page deemed offensive to Muslims and removed its contents. The move came almost two weeks after Pakistan imposed the ban amid anger over a page that encouraged users to post images of Prophet Muhammad. In response to our protest,Facebook has tendered their apology

and informed us that all the sacrilegious material has been removed from the URL, said

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Najibullah Malik,secretary of Information Technology Ministry. Facebook assured the Pakistani government that nothing of this sort will happen in the future,Malik said.

Rockets hit Pak Army aviation base in Peshawar: Two rockets on Monday hit a Pakistan Army aviation base at the airport here,partially damaging a training aircraft,officials said. The Airport Security Force said some unidentified attackers fired two rockets at the airport. There were no reports of casualties in the incident. One rocket hit a training aircraft parked in the army aviation base and partially damaged it. Officials said the second rocket landed in University Town near the airport. After the attack,the army and security forces cordoned off the area and tightened security around the airport. Meanwhile ,helicopter gunships targeted militant positions in the volatile Orakzai tribal region in northwest Pakistan,killing 35 Taliban fighters,officials said.