Making a bad joke can be embarrassing at the best of times but in Pakistan it can now get you thrown into prison.
Security services have been asked to monitor text and e-mail traffic for what are being called “ill-motivated messages”.
Convictions could bring sentences of up to 14 years in jail – the same as being convicted for murder.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan reports from the capital, Islamabad.
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