Afghanistan hit by internet blackout as Taliban cuts fibre optic cables

The Taliban in Afghanistan imposed a national closure of telecommunications, a few weeks after they began to break the fibrous Internet connections to prevent what they call immorality.

Currently, the country is experiencing a total number of connections, an Internet pace, a frantic Network Reports

AFP International Information Agency states that he has lost contact with his office in the capital of Kabul, including mobile phones. Mobile Internet and satellite television were also very violated throughout Afghanistan.

Since the seizure of power in 2021, the Taliban imposed numerous restrictions in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic law Sharia.

According to reports, flights from Kabul airport were also violated.

Several people in Kabul told BBC that their fibrous and optical Internet stopped working at the end of the working day, at about 17: 00 local time (12:30 in Greenwich)

From this, this is understood that many people will not notice the impact until the morning of Tuesday, when banking services and other enterprises should resume.

The fiber-optic cables transmit data very quickly and are used for most of the world in the world.

In a post on a social network Mastodon.socialNetblocks said:

“Afghanistan is currently in the midst of a common Internet, since the Taliban authorities are moving to the implementation of moral measures, and several networks are disconnected in a step -by -step method; Currently, telephone services are affected. “

For a week, Internet users in several Afghan provinces complain either to slow Internet access or without connection.

Previously, the Taliban said that an alternative path for Internet access will be created without providing any details.

Business leaders at that time warned that if the ban on the Internet continues their activities seriously.

Hamid Khaidari, a former editor -in -chief of the Afghan news channel 1TV, said after the closure that “loneliness covered the whole country.”

“Afghanistan officially took first place in competitions with North Korea for [internet] Disconnect ” He said to XField

Blackout is the last in a series of restrictions that the Taliban provided from the moment of return to power.

Earlier this month they Remote books written by women From the system of teaching a university in the country as part of a new ban, which also prohibited teaching human rights and sexual harassment.

Women and girls were also especially amazed: they are forbidden to access education after 12 years, and one of the latest routes for further training at the end of 2024, when obstetrician courses were quietly closed.

The Taliban, a tough Islamist group, in 2021 assigned control of Afghanistan in lightning -fast progress, which lasted only 10 days.

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