Several users report facing issues while trying to open websites in the twin cities.
Internet Outage Reported Across Pakistan as multiple users face connectivity issues in different parts of the country. At present, the users are unable to open several websites in different regions. Some reports claim that the internet outage is for the users of Ufone and its parent company; PTCL. However, the users of other internet companies are also facing similar issues. These include Nayatel, Transworld and WorldCall. Interestingly, the outage is affecting some websites; whereas several other websites are working all fine. It is also interesting that Pakistan is one of the top most country in facing internet outages while it faced $1.62 billion in losses only in 2024.
The regular outages include religious, political or cultural occasions and events. The government blocks the internet for cities, regions or the entire country. Moreover, the shark attacks under the sea also affected the internet at regular intervals when the undersea cables are bitten and the entire country goes without internet.
However, the reason for the current outage is unknown as yet. There is no official word on why the internet isn’t working in different cities across Pakistan. It is also interesting that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has announced launch of 5G satellite internet just two days ago. However, the PTA is unable to continue the regular internet service to the citizenry despite a huge budgetary chunk available to it.
As Internet Outage is Reported Across Pakistan. Some analysts claim that PTA is engaged in restoring internet services in flood hit regions in the country’s north. Thus, the analysts claim that it might be one of the reasons for the current outage as well. However, the official word from PTA is yet to arrive to share the reason for current internet outage in Pakistan.
