Internet access returns to Afghanistan after the Taliban failure

Internet and telecommunications services are restored in Afghanistan after a national closure by the Taliban government caused a generalized conviction.

Local journalists said the communications resumed provinces while Internet Monitor Netblocks said that data from the live network showed a “partial restoration” of connectivity.

The 48 -hour used breakdown disrupted companies and thefts, limited access to emergency services and has raised fears that the isolation of women and girls whose rights were seriously eroded since the Taliban went to power in 2021.

The Taliban did not give an official explanation to the closure.

However, last month, a spokesperson for the Taliban governor in the northern province of Balkh said that Internet access was blocked “for vice prevention”.

Since coming to power, the Taliban have imposed numerous restrictions in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.

Afghan women told the BBC that the Internet was a rescue buoy for the outside world since the Taliban had prohibited girls over 12 from receiving an education.

The employment options of women were also seriously limited and in September, the books written by women were withdrawn from universities.

After the internet closed on Monday, the United Nations said that it had left Afghanistan almost completely cut off from the outside world. He added that he was likely to “inflict significant damage to the Afghan people, including threatening economic stability and exacerbating one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world”.