Twitter access resumes after 12-hour ban

Islamabad:  Access to Twitter was resumed after 12 hours after Pakistan blocked the social networking site because of "blasphemous" material, a Pakistani official said.

The government did not specify which users or messages had prompted the ban on the microblogging site or why it was allowed to operate again so quickly.

Interior Minister Rehman Malek, an active Twitter user, said on the website Sunday night that he had asked the prime minister to order an end to the ban.