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Fouad Bajwa -- a Pakistani member of the liberation technology community, a free and open source software advocate, ICT4D adviser, and social entrepreneur -- brings us the following news from Al-Jazeera, the National Daily Times of Pakistan, and Pakistani News about Pakistan's recent decision to ban social networking site Facebook. Following a complaint filed by the Islamic Lawyers Movement alleging blasphemy on the competition to draw cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa-aal-hi-Wasallam) -- hosted on Facebook and to take place on May 20, the Lahore High Court (LHC) instructed the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to ban the social networking site in that country.