Complaint Filed Against TikTok App On Pakistan Citizen Portal

Some media channels are reporting that the app will be blocked in Pakistan from January 10 following this complaint.

Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 7th January, 2019) A citizen belonging to Nowshera has filed a complaint against the social media application TikTok on Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Citizen Portal.

The Pakistan Citizen’s Portal was quick to act and immediately forwarded the complaint to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).

Some media channels are reporting that the app will be blocked in Pakistan from January 10 following this complaint.

The citizen terms the app to be a “social ill” and hence, it must be blocked in Pakistan.

Since the app’s merger with Musical.ly in November, 2017, TikTok has become a popular social media platform.

The app allows the users to create and remix short videos. TikTok has become quite popular in Pakistan in recent months and its videos often go viral on other social media sites.

A large number of users, mostly youth, use it to upload and browse lip sync videos and memes.

The app is addictive while its use has landed certain people in trouble.

Recently, an SHO of Pakpattan landed himself in hot waters after his TikTok video dancing with a model went viral.

The authorities took an action against SHO Arshad after the videos surfaced and launched an inquiry against him. When the matter came into the attention of Pakpattan DPO Maria Mehmood, she suspended him from duty.

Earlier, a female member of Airport Security Force (ASF) whose video dancing on a Bollywood number went viral on social media was suspended for two years.

The ASF staffer had uploaded her video where she was dancing on ‘Nakhra tera ni’ wearing her uniform.