{"id":44047,"date":"2024-08-06T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T12:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=44047"},"modified":"2024-08-06T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T12:30:26","slug":"internet-disrupted-in-islamabad-as-fiber-optic-cable-set-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad\/internet-disrupted-in-islamabad-as-fiber-optic-cable-set-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet disrupted in Islamabad as fiber optic cable set on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Internet services in several Pakistani cities, including the federal capital <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad-to-implement-new-regulations-for-open-air-spaces\/\">Islamabad<\/a> and Peshawar, were severely affected on Tuesday due to a fire in a fiber optic cable.<\/p>\n<p>As per the details, the fire near the Ninth Avenue Bridge in the I-9 sector of Islamabad caused major connectivity problems in Islamabad, Peshawar, Murree and Abbottabad.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/initial-probe-suggests-india-behind-killing-of-amir-sarfraz-tamba-mohsin-naqvi\/\">initial investigation<\/a>, a group of unknown persons set fire to the underground fiber optic cable.<\/p>\n<p>The fire was eventually brought under control by midday, but the damage caused widespread internet outages.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are currently working to repair and maintain the damaged cable, which experts estimate will take several more hours to fully restore services.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of this incident, banking, telecom and other sectors have also suffered a financial loss of crores of rupees. Fiber optics experts noted that this was the fourth or fifth such incident in recent months, highlighting a disturbing pattern of sabotage targeting the country&#8217;s digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Internet services in several Pakistani cities, including the federal capital Islamabad and Peshawar, were severely affected on Tuesday due to a fire in a fiber optic cable. As per the details, the fire near the Ninth Avenue Bridge in the I-9 sector of Islamabad caused major connectivity problems in Islamabad, Peshawar, Murree and Abbottabad. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":44048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14809,8],"tags":[20148,110],"class_list":["post-44047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-technology","tag-fiber-optic-cable","tag-islamabad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44051,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44047\/revisions\/44051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}