(CNN) -- Pakistan on Thursday blocked access to YouTube -- a day after it shut down the social networking site Facebook -- in response to an online group calling on people to draw the Prophet Mohammed. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ordered operators to shut down YouTube "in view of growing sacrilegious contents on it," officials said in a statement. PTA said Thursday it reached its decision after all "possible avenues were used within its jurisdiction, including using regular channels available on the Facebook and YouTube to launch protest, to avoid appearances of derogatory material available on their websites." Facebook was blocked a day before "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day," which was scheduled by several Facebook groups dedicated to the idea.
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Pakistan blocks access to YouTube, a day after imposing Facebook ban
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"Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" urges users to submit drawings of Mohammed
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Devout Muslims consider it offensive to depict Mohammed
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Telecommunications official says Facebook blocked on government's orders
I believe in equality, and censoring @placeholder while we can draw every other figure in the world does not equal equality," she concluded.