Internet access returns to Afghanistan after Taliban blackout

The Internet and Telecom services are restored in Afghanistan after a country’s provocation of widespread condemnation by the Taliban government.

Local reporters, internet monitor Netblocks’un live network data, the connection of the “partial restoration”, said the communication continues between the provinces, he said.

A resource close to the government confirmed that the BBC Afghan returned to Afghan with the special order of the Taliban Prime Minister.

The 48 -hour dimming has overturned businesses and flights, and has increased the fear of further isolating women and daughters, who have been seriously eroded since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.

On Wednesday, a man who visited a series of fields in Kabul Kabul told BBC Afghan: “Everyone is happy, holding their mobile phones and talking to their relatives.

“From women to men and their suitors [a member of the Taliban]After the services were restored, each of them was talking on the phones. Now there are more crowded in the city. “

The government did not make an official statement to close.

However, last month, the Taliban Governor of Balkh in the northern province of Balkh said that internet access was blocked for “menstrual prevention”.

Since his return to power, the Taliban has imposed many restrictions in accordance with the interpretation of the Islamic Sharia Law.

Afghan women told the BBC that the Internet is a life line for the outside world because the Taliban banned the education of girls over 12 years of age.

Women’s business options were also seriously restricted and books written by women in September were removed from the universities.

Following the closure of the internet on Monday, the United Nations said that Afghanistan has almost completely cut off the outside world. The minister gave the risk of “threatening economic stability and making significant damage to the Afghan people, including further worsening one of the worst human crises in the world”.