Internet users continuously facing problems due to poor internet services across the country.
According to the report, popular social media platforms such as WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok have either been operating at reduced speeds.
People in Pakistan are facing slow internet speed after the government reportedly installed firewall to monitor anti-state content on the social media apps.
While internet disruptions are not uncommon in Pakistan, the frequency of such outages has increased in recent months. Last week, internet and mobile services were temporarily disrupted in Islamabad during a political protest by the opposition party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
Now the cause of the current slowdown in internet speed remains unclear, and authorities have not provided an official statement for the ongoing issue.
According to DAWN report, Minister of State for Information Technology and Telecom Shaza Fatima Khawaja said that the situation with the firewall was “blown out of proportion and a web management system has been operating in the country for 10 years.”
“There is nothing controversial about a country working on its cyber security,” she said, adding that the entire world used different cyber security mechanisms.
She said that the security paradigm of the world was shifting towards information and technology (IT) similar to the economic paradigm.
