Fiber-optic internet services have been cut off again in the northern province of Kunduz, local sources told Amu on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
According to three sources, the disruption began late Monday night, following an order from local Taliban officials instructing service providers to suspend fiber connections until further notice.<\/p>\n
Kunduz was among 17 provinces where fiber-optic internet was cut off by the Taliban in late September, which was followed by nationwide blackout on Sept. 29. <\/p>\n
The sources said that \u201cpoint-to-point\u201d connections \u2014 a limited form of internet service used by some private users and offices \u2014 remain active, though speeds are unstable.<\/p>\n
Taliban have not issued any official explanation for the renewed shutdown.<\/p>\n
The outage comes just days after the restoration of nationwide internet services, which had been completely cut for 48 hours in late September on the orders of Taliban leaders. That blackout, the most extensive since the Taliban\u2019s return to power in 2021, disrupted banking, commerce, aviation, and humanitarian operations across the country.<\/p>\n
The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International condemned the earlier shutdown, warning that it violated the rights to information and expression and deepened Afghanistan\u2019s economic and humanitarian crises.<\/p>\n
Despite the restoration of service, users across several provinces \u2014 including Kabul, Herat, and Helmand \u2014 have since reported slow speeds and frequent disconnections.<\/p>\n
Taliban have so far offered conflicting explanations for the blackouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fiber-optic internet services have been cut off again in the northern province of Kunduz, local sources told Amu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1638,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-183335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}