Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered government to filter all unwanted content before restoring the website after it was blocked in 2012 following uploading of the controversial film "Innocence of Muslims" that caused an uproar in the conservative Islamic nation.
An official of Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) said that so far no method has been found to selectively stop obscene and anti-Islamic content on the site.
The minister also said that the Supreme Court had ordered the PTA to block offending material but there was no solution which could guarantee 100 per cent blockage of objectionable content on YouTube.
Another official of IT ministry said that the Supreme Court order is the main stumbling block, leaving the government with the easy option to continue with the ban on the popular video sharing website.
The fact is that Internet users across Pakistan continue to bypass the official ban and access YouTube through proxy servers while the government conveniently looks the other way.