Pakistan's internet services are back online after being down for more than 72 hours.
Access to popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube has also been restored.
Following a more than 72-hour outage, mobile internet services in Pakistan have been restored, giving people access to a variety of social media websites like YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.
Following Imran Khan's detention and the accompanying violent protests that broke out across the nation, which threatened law and order and security, the internet was shut down. Imran Khan is a former prime minister and the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). As a result, social media and mobile internet access for the general population were blocked statewide.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority blocked Pakistani citizens' access to mobile internet services and a number of social media websites, including YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, in accordance with instructions from the Ministry of Interior.
Mobile companies and the nation's freelancing industry were significantly impacted by the inability to access websites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and others.
Many nations, including the United States, had expressed worry over the social media ban and their unease with the situation.
Digital service providers, the government, and the general public all suffered major financial losses as a result of the suspension of mobile broadband services.
In the wake of the riots started by the arrest of PTI Chairman Imran Khan on May 9, mobile broadband services and access to social media platforms have been stopped for a consecutive fourth day in some regions of the country on Friday.
A report released on Thursday claims that the suspension cost cellular providers at least Rs820 million in lost income and cost the government about Rs287 million in lost tax revenue. People who rely on online apps and payments, like Careem, InDrive, FoodPanda, and others, also experienced a large loss of income.
Since the internet was shut down, the IT industry, which was already struggling from supposedly bad government policies and a lack of continuity, has also come to a complete standstill.
On Thursday, a writ petition was also submitted to the Lahore High Court (LHC) requesting that the appropriate authorities be instructed to provide access to all social media platforms and to restore cellular internet connectivity. The imposed blockage amounts to depriving the public of their fundamental rights, and the court was sought to declare it to be arbitrary, illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional.
Groupe Speciale Mobile Association (GSMA), a global body of the mobile ecosystem, raised worry about the suspension of broadband internet in Pakistan on Friday. The GSMA urged the government to stop internet outages in an urgent letter to Federal Minister of Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haq.
