On Thursday, the Pakistani Government put a ban on access to YouTube owing to "sacrilegious" content on the video-sharing website, indicating a rising Internet attack against websites considered nasty to the nation's majority Muslim populace.

The move against YouTube arrived a day after the Government wedged access to Facebook because of annoyance regarding a page on the social networking website, which promotes consumers to post pictures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. The page ignited condemnation since Islam bans any photos of the Prophet.

The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority did not point out particular material on YouTube, which provoked it to block the website, only quoting "growing sacrilegious contents".

The regulatory body said in a statement that the Government took a step against both Facebook and YouTube, after it botched to convince the websites to get rid of the "derogatory material".

It greeted spokespersons from the two sites to get in touch with the Pakistani Government to crack the disagreement in a method that "ensures religious harmony and respect".

The regulatory body said that it has restricted over 450 Internet links including odious material, but it is uncertain that how many of the links were barred in the past two days.

Access to the online encyclopedia website, Wikipedia and the photo sharing site, Flickr was also banned on Thursday.