It is not immediately clear why the government retracted the earlier decision to restrict the services.—AP/File photo

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday reversed its earlier decision to restrict the popular BlackBerry services.

Earlier today, Pakistan called on mobile phone operators to stop BlackBerry services to foreign missions amid concern about the security of the communications, industry sources said.

But the instruction was later reversed. “Now they have again asked the operators to continue providing BlackBerry services to the foreign missions,” an industry source told Reuters, who declined to be identified.

A spokesman at the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Khurram Ali Mehran, confirmed that the services continued. “The Blackberry services are on for the foreign missions,” he said.

It was not immediately clear why the government retracted the earlier decision to restrict the services.

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