Taliban officials said that Peshawar, Pakistan – Afghanistan is gradually returning via the Internet, after comprehensive discounts in cell phone and Internet services that affected everything from banking services to travel to work.
The Afghan Ministry of Information said in a statement on Wednesday: “In the wake of a large technician disruption in mobile phone networks in Afghanistan, phone call services now began to gradually restore,” adding that the teams “operate around the clock to ensure the restoration of full services.”
The ministry said: “In some provinces, users have confirmed that the connection of mobile phone calls has resumed, although the difficulties are continuing in certain areas.”
Internet monitor NetBlocks He said Wednesday that there is a “partial restoration of internet connection”, two days after Afghanistan was “in the midst of overall internet blackout.”
The United Nations Assistant Mission in Afghanistan said on Wednesday that the power outage appears to have been reversed, as it has resumed services throughout the country, which number more than 40 million people.
“The reduction was carried out without a clear interpretation of the Taliban’s realistic authorities and it appears that it was also reversed without explanation,” United Nations spokesman Stephen Dujarrik told New York reporters.
Dujarrick said commercial air traffic had also been cleansed to resume normally.
After the interruption, the Internet banned last month was imposed on five northern provinces as part of a campaign on immorality, raising concerns about new borders on Afghans reaching the outside world.
The ban was especially frustrated for women and girls who relied on the Internet to learn online after the Taliban prevented them from enrolling in the school after the sixth grade.
“He has risked the reduction of communications by inflicting multiple negative effects on the Afghan people: on economic stability, on the wrong situation that continues for Afghan women and girls, and the rights of all the Afghan people to freedom of expression and access to information and privacy,” Dujarrick said.
He said the reduction also disrupted the work of the United Nations, including cash assistance to the recent earthquake victims.
It was not clear why the power outage occurred exactly or whether the Taliban had ordered it.
Multiple news organizations, including NBC News, reported that the Taliban denied the internet interruption request and deposited them to old optical fiber cables that need to be replaced.
The Taliban spokesman, Zabih Allah, the Mujahid, said that these reports, which arose on the emirate’s website in the Urdu language, were based on a fabricated statement and that the Internet service had been suspended for technical reasons.
Mushtaq Yusufzai mentioned from Peshawar, Jay Ganjellani of Hong Kong.