KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has directed the authorities concerned to ensure uninterrupted access to the internet to all citizens till February 8 general elections.
In its order on Wednesday, the high court restrained the authorities from suspending internet services and directed the respondents to submit their response on January 29.
Advocate and human rights activist Jibran Nasir’s had filed the petition in the SHC against frequent suspension of internet services in the country.
As the political canvassing picks up pace ahead of the next month’s elections, users have experienced internet outages multiple times in recent days.
The outage of social media platforms including Facebook, X, Instagram and YouTube was the second in two weeks on January 20.
Following an hours-long disruption last week, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blamed a “technical fault” in its optic fibre network for the nationwide internet outage.
On its official account on X, the PTA said: “The recent disruption in internet services was caused by a technical fault, which has been promptly rectified. Internet services have been fully restored nationwide.”
