According to the output tracking website, on Monday, users across the country reported problems in accessing social media platform X. Dettector.com Since the platform owner Elon Musk has claimed that “widespread cybertack” continues against the service.
It is noted that X is formally banned for access and use.
The Dowan detector showed that 65 reports were received by users in Pakistan at 3:02 pm, which indicates “potential problems” in this service. It reached 109 reports at 9:32 pm.
There were reports about interruption in access Received From Lahore, Rawalpindi and Karachi.
Meanwhile, Tracker said that X is also facing intermittent closures in the United States, in which thousands of users have been prevented from accessing the social media platform.
The number of closure reports was close to 26,579 after the fall was shortly, the data produced by the user on the tracking website since then. The number was up to 40,000 a day.
According to the website, more than 10,800 users in the UK also reported the closure at the early days.
The obstacle is the result of a cybertack, Musk said.
“There was a massive cybertack (still) against X. We attack every day, but it was done with a lot of resources. Either a huge, integrated group and/or a country are involved,” Musk said in a post on the platform, saying that the investigation was underway.
An internet infrastructure industry source said X was subjected to several waves of refusal to start at almost 9:45 UTC.
The source spoke on the condition of not disclosing his name because the person did not have the authority to publicly discuss the matter.
Refuses to serve through tremendous target websites with bullying traffic. Such attacks are not necessarily sophisticated, but they can cause significant obstacles.
Internet Tracking Monitor Net Blocks too Reported Evening at 7: 17 o’clock that X was facing international sanctions, he added that the incident was not related to the country’s level internet barriers or filtering.
After identifying a year of a ban on X to Pakistan in February, government officials have indicated that the service is unlikely to be restored at any time.
The social media platform, which was used by about 4.5 million people in Pakistan, was blocked in February 2024, 10 days after the general election, while the caretaker government was still in power.
Since consumers shared claims on X allegedly widespread rigging in the elections, final blow – due to complete shutdown – was a press conference by former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liakot Chattha, which was accused of Chief Election Commissioner Alexander Sultan Raja and former Chief Justice.
After more than a year, there are no indications that a Muslim League -N from Punjab had said that the government was considering lifting the ban on X. Don.
He gave remarks regarding the opposition party’s social media team, “Lifting the ban on X is to overcome the PTI’s keyboard warrar attack against it on social media.”
Don The minister had reached the information. However, various government departments continue to publish official statements on their own ministry and their counterparts, such as the Prime Minister’s Office, the Foreign Ministry and the Almighty.
Civil society organizations, rights supporters, journalists and individuals demanded the immediate restoration of X and called on the government to refrain from taking such discretionary steps in the future.
He says the ban violates Article 19 of the Constitution and disrupts Pakistan’s promises of international law.
The story of the banned
In weeks after the ban on X, the government and the Telecom Regulator, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) repeatedly denied that the platform had been blocked.
The first entrance came about restrictions March last year, when the Interior Ministry told the Sindh High Court that X has been blocked on reports of intelligence agencies.
In April, the ministry told the Islamabad High Court that X did not follow the government’s directive to stop the “misuse of its platform”.
The ban was imposed in the interest of “maintaining national security, maintaining public discipline, and preserving the integrity of our nation.”
The government also claimed that X “did not properly respond” to stop the accounts involved in the notorious campaigns against the former Chief Justice of the Federal Investigation Agency and the Army Chief.
During the year -long suspension, X management only made public comments once, when he said he “will continue to work with the Pakistani government to understand their concerns”.
