{"id":47784,"date":"2024-09-08T16:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=47784"},"modified":"2024-09-08T16:31:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:31:26","slug":"whatsapp-services-disrupted-in-pakistan-ahead-of-pti-gathering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/whatsapp-services-disrupted-in-pakistan-ahead-of-pti-gathering\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp services disrupted in Pakistan ahead of PTI gathering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/whatsapp-rolls-out-exciting-new-features-for-ios-users-check-details-inside\/\">WhatsApp users<\/a> in Pakistan, particularly in Lahore and Islamabad, experienced disruptions on Sunday, with difficulties in sharing files, especially pictures and videos.<\/p>\n<p>The outage occurred as the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad-traffic-plan-for-pti-power-show-at-sangjani\/\">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)<\/a> prepared for a political gathering in Islamabad, where entry and exit points were blocked.<\/p>\n<p>The disruptions affected mobile data users, while those connected to broadband services remained unaffected. Other social media platforms, such as YouTube, continued to function normally.<\/p>\n<p>This incident is the latest in a series of internet connectivity issues in Pakistan, which have persisted for approximately two months.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) attributes the problems to cable faults and expects repairs to be completed by early October.<\/p>\n<p>However, conflicting explanations have emerged, with some officials suggesting increased VPN use or a government-imposed firewall might be contributing factors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: WhatsApp users in Pakistan, particularly in Lahore and Islamabad, experienced disruptions on Sunday, with difficulties in sharing files, especially pictures and videos. The outage occurred as the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) prepared for a political gathering in Islamabad, where entry and exit points were blocked. The disruptions affected mobile data users, while those connected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":47785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[493,21466,21467],"class_list":["post-47784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf-pti","tag-pakistan-telecommunication-authority-pta","tag-whatsapp-services-disrupted-in-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47786,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784\/revisions\/47786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}