{"id":50244,"date":"2024-09-28T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T13:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=50244"},"modified":"2024-09-28T19:38:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T14:38:46","slug":"whatsapp-instagram-face-disruption-in-pakistan-as-pti-stage-rawalpindi-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/whatsapp-instagram-face-disruption-in-pakistan-as-pti-stage-rawalpindi-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"WhatsApp, Instagram face disruption in Pakistan as PTI stage Rawalpindi protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/live-pti-protest-clashes-erupt-between-police-workers-in-sieged-rawalpindi\/\">demonstration<\/a> in Rawalpindi, the district administration has slowed down the internet service in the city. The life crippled in the garrison city with the closure of the metro bus, major intersections, and thoroughfares.<\/p>\n<p>Following the PTI&#8217;s protest call, social media users are facing disruption in major platforms including WhatsApp and Instagram across the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<div class=\"desktop-only\">\n<p class=\"h2 entry-title\">DownDetector, the internet service monitoring website, showed that WhatsApp users facing difficulties sending media files via mobile data starting in the wee hours on Saturday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50246\" style=\"width: 638px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50246\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/W.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/W.png 1022w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/W-300x123.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/W-768x316.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/W.avif 1022w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/W-300x123.avif 300w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/W-768x316.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Downdetector graph shows WhatsApp disruption in Pakistan dated September 28, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"h2 entry-title\">Internet monitoring platform also confirmed the outages in PTCL and Instagram services which heightened at 6:00 PM on Saturday, while services on other platforms remained normal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50245\" style=\"width: 685px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50245 \" src=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"685\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I.png 1007w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-300x124.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-768x317.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I.avif 1007w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-300x124.avif 300w, https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-768x317.avif 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Downdetector graph shows an Instagram outage in Pakistan dated September 28, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A similar disruption was reported during PTI&#8217;s previous rally in Islamabad and Lahore. 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: As Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) announced a demonstration in Rawalpindi, the district administration has slowed down the internet service in the city. The life crippled in the garrison city with the closure of the metro bus, major intersections, and thoroughfares. Following the PTI&#8217;s protest call, social media users are facing disruption in major platforms including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":50247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22382,22381],"class_list":["post-50244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-instagram-disruption","tag-whatsapp-disruption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50249,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50244\/revisions\/50249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}