Internet and Mobile phone Services have been restored Afghanistan After a sudden 48-hour blackout,
The biggest provider’s phone services, both the light and the ethia, were restored on Wednesday afternoon on Wednesday, the Reuters quoted the residents in Kabul as saying.
Internet services, which were Cut in Afghanistan According to broadband providers, it was also restored on Monday.
Communication Blackout also disrupted satellite television broadcast and flight operations with at least five. Flights Kabul has been determined to come or leave from the airport.
It also influenced banking works, as well as financial remittances and trading with neighboring countries.
The Taliban refused to implement a nationwide internet blackout, citing “fiber optic infrastructure” for the outage.
Blackout was first reported by Netblock, claiming that “Afghanistan is now in the middle of the total internet blackout as the Taliban authorities take steps to implement morality measures, many networks have disconnected through a step through the morning.”
However, the Taliban government dismissed the news of the ban as “rumors” and said that the broadband was working to change the infrastructure.
The United Nations had called for the restoration of connectivity, saying that it had almost cut Afghanistan from the outside world almost completely.
In Afghanistan, United Nations human coordinator Indrika Ratwat said that the Internet shutdowns were influencing their daily work and significant assistance provisions.
“This is another crisis at the top of the current crisis, and the impact is going to be on the lives of the Afghan people.”
Human Rights Watch condemned the Internet shutdown, arguing that it damaged the rights and livelihood of Afghans by disrupting access to education, commerce, media and healthcare.
According to Reuters, outage disrupted online learning, a lifeline for adolescent girls and women that were banned by Taliban from schools and universities.
In some provinces, Taliban authorities black out a few weeks after cutting the broadband internet, which was described as an attempt to curb “immorality”.
A Taliban spokesman of the Balk Administration said at the time, “This measure was taken to prevent immorality and an option will be made within the country for needs.”