Pakistan’s media regulating authority on Friday once more lifted a ban on TikTok, this time after 4 months, following assurances from the favored Chinese video-sharing service that it might management the unfold of indecent content material.

It was the fourth time previously 15 months that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority imposed and lifted such a ban.

Pakistan first blocked TikTok, which may be very standard amongst Pakistani teenagers and younger adults, in October 2020 over what it described as widespread complaints about allegedly “immoral, obscene and vulgar” content material on the app.

The regulatory company mentioned in an announcement on Twitter that TikTok had assured Pakistan it might additionally block customers who add “unlawful content.” The app, owned by China’s ByteDance, has been downloaded nearly 39 million instances in Pakistan.

Pakistan, which has shut relations with China, has been urging TikTok to develop an efficient mechanism to manage illegal content material.

Over the years, Pakistan has additionally forwarded lots of of complaints to Facebook and Twitter about content material, alleging it’s offensive and probably insulting to Islam, which works in opposition to Pakistani regulation.

In 2008, Pakistan banned YouTube over movies depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims typically consider any bodily depiction of Islam’s prophet is blasphemous.