X is Down Once More in Pakistan, With a Nationwide Outage

In Pakistan, the well-known social networking site X (previously Twitter) has gone down once more. On Saturday, users reported extensive service outages.

Many users have reported that even Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) are not regaining access to the platform, which has been unreachable nationwide. Both the web and mobile app versions of X have been impacted by the outage.

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and government officials have yet to provide an official explanation for the outage.

The majority of outage complaints are displayed between 4 and 7 p.m. on the outage-tracking website Downdetector.com, with the highest number of over 380 incidents occurring around 6 p.m.

A statement on the continuous interruption in the services of social media platform X (previously Twitter) has been released by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).

The PTA claims that the interruption of X services is a worldwide problem that impacts Pakistan as well as other nations. The government added that the extensive disruption in X services has also been confirmed by NetBlocks, an international organization that keeps an eye on internet traffic.

The PTA guaranteed that all other internet services in Pakistan are functioning normally and that there are no technical problems with the country’s internet gateways.

According to the statement, there is no connection between the disruption in X services and any internet filtering or service outages in Pakistan.

This is not the first time when X’s services in Pakistan are disrupted. In the last couple of months, the platform has experienced sporadic disruptions that often occur around the time of protests or political events.

Global disruptions were confirmed by outage-tracking website Downdetector.com after users reported having trouble accessing social networking platform X (previously Twitter) on March 11. The owner of the platform X, Elon Musk, proclaimed that for the time being, the service was the victim of a “massive cyberattack”.

Even though it is barred in Pakistan, 74 outage reports were received by Downdetector from Pakistani users at 3:08 pm. That number had risen to 136 by 11:06 pm, but it dropped to 45 after an hour. The prime sources of complaints were Karachi, Rawalpindi, and Lahore.

Tens of thousands of users in the US, UK, and other countries experienced accessibility problems, indicating the outage was not just in Pakistan.

The continued difficulties with internet connectivity were exacerbated on February 17 when Pakistani internet users encountered yet another interruption in using the services of social media site X, formerly known as Twitter. Users from Islamabad and other regions of the nation were unable to use the platform because the service was down for several hours.

Amid mounting worries about the frequent outages, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) remained silent on the matter and did not release an official statement.