Pakistan's Prime Minister has written a letter to Facebook calling for a ban on Islamophobic content on the site

Pakistan's Prime Minister has written a letter to Facebook calling for a ban on Islamophobic content on the site

Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has urged Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to ban all Islamophobic content on the site.

The South Asia country's leader has penned a letter to highlight the "growing Islamophobia" being spread across social media.

And following the CEO's announcement earlier this month, that Facebook will ban all Holocaust denial content, Khan wants the same rules to apply to hateful content aimed at Islam.

In the letter, the Pakistani government wrote: "I would ask you to place a similar ban on Islamophobia and hate against Islam for Facebook that you have put in place for the Holocaust."

It comes weeks after Zuckerberg defended Facebook's decision to prohibit "any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust".