The lesson of history is that restrictions prevent progress while law,freedom and tolerance breed progress. In the past, the East and the West put restrictions on new thinking, science and technology, which hindered the progress of humanity. The era of tolerance, tolerance, laws and freedom started, then science and technology got a boost, making today’s modern world possible.

In contrast, VPN has been declared un-Islamic by the Islamic Ideological Council, although there is absolutely no contradiction between Islam and science, but the ulama definitely have a contradiction with science. Remember that when a gift of gharial came to Turkey, it was declared heresy and the crown prince broke it by placing it in the intersection, but today every religious scholar wears a watch. When the camera was invented, there were fatwas against the photo. In Turkey, the photo was declared blasphemy. Until a few years ago, the scholars of our region used to consider taking a photo as a sin. Alam Deen considers it a pride to appear on the TV screen. The limit is that even coffee was declared infidel, there were riots over coffee in Turkey, later it was found that coffee does not come from the West, it comes from African Muslim countries. The printing press was not allowed to enter Muslim countries for 500 years, handwritten books were used so that this evil machine would not harm the Islamic art of calligraphy and writing. Objections to wearing pant coats, English-style haircuts and even loudspeakers have been answered as silly and silly.

Social media has troubled every country in the world, not only in contrast, articles are being made about its horrors all over the world. The biggest drawback of social media is that unknown people get the right to spread news among people and they can mislead people by running false and true news without any verification. There are rules. Every media company has its own rules and then the path to public accountability is open. Social media is rampant and unbridled, it spreads lies, causes chaos, due to this chaos, the development of the country is temporarily affected, but in my humble opinion, the cure for this rampant camel is not prohibition, but laws and regulations on it. is applied. Today, the work of the state and the government is not to block development, but to regulate one issue and deregulate another issue.

The experience of the past is that the more you ban anything, the more popular it will be. Social media is maligned by spreading fake news and slurs, I myself have been a victim of this hate crime many times but still I think banning social media or VPN will not solve the problem but more. It will be complicated, the best way is to adopt the rules and regulations that Britain is setting regarding social media so that there is no noise that freedoms have been limited in Pakistan and no one can say that VPN The ban is hurting their business .

There is a flaw in the very foundation of the philosophy of sanctions, and that is that both those who are not doing anything wrong and those who are doing wrong come under the ban. Suppose the ban on VPN continues, then the poor person who is earning millions of foreign exchange for the country with this modern invention will also come under the attack and the miscreant who is spreading mischief and corruption will also come under the attack. It is the duty of the state to bring such laws that the troublemaker is banned and the foreign exchange earner gets facilities. In an anarchic country like ours, despite the bans, thieves get their jobs out of doors and poor honest businessmen lose everything.

The history of the Muslim Ummah for the past 6 centuries shows that we have completely rejected new thinking, new inventions and new age practices even though the Japanese and Chinese societies have adapted their cultural and religious practices along with the demands of the modern world. Matched. We also need to regulate or discipline new inventions and new thinking rather than restricting them. By rejecting them we will also lose the benefits of social media and VPNs. We cannot stop progress, by stopping we will be left behind and the world will move forward.

India is far ahead of us in the field of IT, but due to the increasing development of IT in Pakistan, many companies are opening their businesses here as well. If social media is regulated, this negative weapon can become our positive weapon.

In today’s world, the unrestrained freedom of social media is being lost to the mainstream media, the media industry of Contradistan is suffering from severe financial risks, the laws and regulations are being imposed on the mainstream media, fines and reprimands are being imposed every day. While social media is busy spreading fake news despite the firewall. If the government only punishes those spreading fake news by using existing laws, it will make a difference in days. The social media warriors who misbehaved with Qazi Faiz in London live in the free country of Britain, they have no fear and no fear, so they cross the line. The government of Pakistan took a strict stand and took the legal route, seven of the two dozen accused formally apologized and announced forgiveness. It has been proven that legislation and effective implementation is the solution to the problem, not restrictions.

Note: This is the translation of his Urdu column published in Jang