Afghanistan struck from an internet eclipse as the Taliban cuts optical cables

The Taliban in Afghanistan has imposed a national suspension of telecommunications, weeks after they began to tear up optical internet connections to prevent what they call immorality.

Currently the country is experiencing a total eclipse of connectivity, internet surveillance, Netblocks Reports.

The international news agency AFP says it has lost contact with its office in the capital Kabul, including the mobile phone service. Mobile internet and satellite television are also very destroyed in Afghanistan.

After seizing power in 2021, the Taliban imposed many restrictions in accordance with their interpretation of the Islamic Law of Sharia.

Flights from Kabul Airport have also been violated, according to reports.

Several people in Kabul have told the BBC that their optical internet has stopped working towards the end of the work day, around 5:00 local time (12:30 GMT)

Therefore, it is understood that many people will not notice the impact by Tuesday morning, when banking services and other businesses have to be resumed.

Fiber-optic cables transfer data super quickly and are used for most of the world’s Internet.

In a social network publication Mastodon.socialNetblocks said:

“Afghanistan is now in the midst of a total eclipse on the Internet, as the Taliban authorities are moving to apply moral measures, with multiple networks being excluded in a gradual state in the morning; current telephone services are also affected.”

For weeks, Internet users in several Afghan provinces have been complaining of either slow Internet access or connection.

The Taliban said earlier that an alternative internet access route would be created without giving any details.

Business leaders at that time warned that if the ban on the Internet continued, their activity would be seriously affected.

Hamid Hydari, a former editor -in -chief of Afghan news channel 1TV, said after the stop that “loneliness is enveloping the whole country.”

“Afghanistan already officially took first place in the North Korea race for (internet) interruption” He told xS

The eclipse is the latest in a series of restrictions that the Taliban imposed after their return to power.

Earlier this month they Removed books written by women From the University University of University as part of a new ban that also banned the teaching of human rights and sexual harassment.

Women and girls were also particularly affected: they are forbidden to have access to education after the age of 12, with one of their last routes to further training being cut off at the end of 2024, when the midwife courses were quietly closed.

The Taliban, a hard Islamist group, included control of Afghanistan in 2021 in a lightning advance, which lasted only 10 days.