Taliban internet blackout paralyses Afghanistan, cutting it off from the world
“This will have great effects,” he said. “This will affect banking, hospitals, education, everything.”
Flights between Kabul and Dubai, the main regional airline center, have greatly deteriorated compared to the Dubai Airport website, which shows six of the eight connections canceled in local hours. The websites of the institutions operated by Kabul Airport and other government seemed offline.
Private TV channel Tolo News Tolo News, Kabul’s Money Exchange Market – Afghan Equivalent of the Stock Exchange of Securities – was open on Tuesday, but it was processed on Monday.
The United Nations aid mission in Afghanistan called the Taliban regime to “immediately and fully restore access to internet and telecommunications across the country”.
Mission, “critical banking and financial systems, women and girls further increasing the isolation, emergency services and medical care limit access to the” Paralysis “Afghan people,” he said.
More than 2200 people died in an earthquake in East Afghanistan last month and emergency intervention continued this week.
Forcing women offline, Sanam Kabiri, a 35 -year -old Afghan women’s rights activist living in Australia, is another way to “isolate them further”.
Many women tried to compensate for the Taliban’s restrictions on women’s education, work and access to public spaces by searching for digital communities. “They are the most vulnerable in the country,” he said.
Washington Post For a comment, Taliban’s Ministry of Interior tried to contact with the Chief Government Spokesman, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the president of the Doha office. However, 24 hours before the internet closure, not all messages were delivered and calls unanswered.
“I am not sure that the leadership understands the consequences of closing the Internet”
Zalmay Khalilzad, an old US Special Ambassador for Afghanistan Reconciliation
Foreign -based Taliban official said that the regime members would be restored at the end of some connections, but that they would be restored at very slow speeds, not with fast fiber optical ways.
Internet closure can help Taliban tighten the ruling grip. But at the same time, he can backfire, deepen the disappointment of the people with the regime, and encourage critics.
The deduction confirmed a Pakistan claim. Pakistani officials, Afghanistan in the northwest of Pakistan, a growing rebellion of the Pakistan Taliban Militant group, he said.
Afghan Taliban refused to blame the officials. However, the group’s digital channels decided immediately after the country lost the internet connection on Monday evening, and the messages given to four members on Tuesday were not delivered.
In Kabul on Tuesday, a diplomatic official said that the Taliban had speculation about why access to the Internet has been closed. He spoke about anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the public.
Associated Press reported proposals that the Taliban could be a part of a pressure on immorality.
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However, some see the closure as a possible sign of the Taliban paranoia, the diplomatic official, US President Donald Trump wants to regain control of Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Base. Nevertheless, on Tuesday, there was no immediate symptoms of high security measures or wider security pressure in Kabul.
The internal power dynamics could also be decided. Since the Taliban regained power in 2021, it was found that the implementation of some of the most regular rules was generally linked to the competition of power within the regime.
While the Almighty Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in Kandahar has been increasingly claiming its power in recent years, some more pragmatic officials of the regime have returned quietly.
Previous leadership prohibitions in Kabul and other cities in photographs or videos showing “living things” were largely ignored.
The restrictions of the challenging leaders prevented Taliban from arising from the isolation. Some regime officials put pressure on more international social assistance.
Im I am not sure that the leadership understands the consequences of the closure of the Internet ”, Zalmay Khalilzad, an old US special ambassador for the agreement of Afghanistan, wrote on X.
“Even his own ministers are stunned, Afghan business leaders and foreign officials can not answer questions about why the decision was taken and what the next step is.”
