New Delhi: India is making efforts to block a controversial film that is being said to be offensive to Islam and has sparked anti-US protests in many Arab countries like Libya, Egypt and Yemen.
The Home Ministry has forwarded a request of the Jammu and Kashmir government to block all webpages where the film is available to Director General of Computer Emergency Response Team India for urgent action.
"The DG CERT-In is looking into the matter and in all probability the webpages will be blocked soon," a Home Ministry official said.
The government has sent a request to Google to remove some URLs related to the movie. Google's response on India's request is awaited.
Meanwhile, Pakistani authorities have blocked access to a clip of the movie that triggered protests across the Muslim world even as hardline groups like the Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) announced plans to organise demonstrations against it.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocked pages on YouTube and other video sharing websites that had a clip from the controversial movie.
Google has also blocked the movie in Egypt and Libya after attacks on US embassies. YouTube, owned by Google Inc, said it would not remove the clip but had blocked access in Egypt and Libya.
(With additional information from PTI and Reuters)
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