A huge communication failure struck Afghanistan on Monday, weeks after the Taliban authorities began to break the fiber optics connections in several provinces to prevent “vice”.
“An electronic electrical failure is now in force,” said Netblocks, a surveillance organization that monitors cybersecurity and internet governance.
“We now observe national connectivity at 14% of ordinary levels.”
The guard dog said that the incident “appears in accordance with the intentional disconnection of the service”.
AFP Contact his office in the Kabul capital around 6:15 p.m. (1315 GMT), including the mobile telephone service.
Afghanistan Taliban authorities began to repress Internet access at the beginning of the month, breaking connections in several provinces.
This decision, commanded by the supreme chief of the Taliban, Hibatullah Akhundzada, has actually closed the Internet at high speed in several regions.
Internet with fiber optics was completely prohibited in the northern province of Balkh on the chief’s orders, said provincial spokesman Attaullah Zaid on September 16.
“This measure has been taken to prevent vice, and alternative options will be implemented across the country to meet connectivity needs,” he wrote on social networks.
At the time, AFP The correspondents reported the same restrictions in the northern provinces of Badakhshan and Takhar, as well as in Kandahar, Helmand, Nangarhar and Uruzgan in the south.
In recent weeks, internet connections have been extremely slow or intermittent.
In 2024, Kabul had praised the network of optical fibers of 9350 kilometers – largely built by former governments supported by the United States – as a “priority” to bring the country closer to the rest of the world and remove it from poverty.
Since the retirement of power in 2021, the Taliban have established many restrictions.
