\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nIt doesn\u2019t help that PTA Chairman Maj Gen (retd) Hafeezur Rehman recently admitted that an upgrade to the National Firewall System (NFS) is indeed underway<\/h2>\n
This upgrade, approved way back in March 2019, is supposedly aimed at regulating or removing content from social media platforms based on directives from the government or courts. And let\u2019s not forget that social media platform X (formerly Twitter) was banned recently for not playing by the rules.<\/p>\n
And as you can imagine, people are NOT happy.<\/p>\n
The prolonged internet issues have sparked outrage across the country!<\/h2>\n
From freelancers trying to meet deadlines to students struggling to attend online classes, everyone is feeling the pinch. Social media is ablaze with angry rants, memes, and outright frustration.<\/p>\n
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So, what can we do besides wait? The PTA assures us that repairs are ongoing, and things should return to normal by October. Until then, it looks like we\u2019re in for a bumpy ride on the information superhighway…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The internet in Pakistan is on life support, and it looks like we\u2019re in for a long haul. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has just confirmed that the ongoing internet disruptions are set to last until October Yes, you heard that right\u2014another month of painfully slow connections, endless buffering, and overall digital frustration. The culprit? … ","protected":false},"author":4414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"acf":{"hide_featured_image":false,"featured_image":{"ID":49243,"id":49243,"title":"Copy of Featured Image template (1)","filename":"Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1.png","filesize":422882,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1.png","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/latest\/public-outrage-grows-as-pta-confirms-internet-issues-until-october\/attachment\/copy-of-featured-image-template-1-2\/","alt":"","author":"4414","description":"","caption":"","name":"copy-of-featured-image-template-1-2","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":49234,"date":"2024-08-29 11:37:20","modified":"2024-08-29 11:37:20","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/png","type":"image","subtype":"png","icon":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":700,"height":350,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1-small.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1-medium.png","medium-width":250,"medium-height":125,"medium_large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1.png","medium_large-width":700,"medium_large-height":350,"large":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1-large.png","large-width":700,"large-height":350,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1.png","1536x1536-width":700,"1536x1536-height":350,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1.png","2048x2048-width":700,"2048x2048-height":350,"small":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1-120x60.png","small-width":120,"small-height":60,"custom-size":"https:\/\/cdn.lovin.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2024\/08\/29153720\/Copy-of-Featured-Image-template-1-700x200.png","custom-size-width":700,"custom-size-height":200}},"featured_image_caption":"","summary":"","flexible_content":false,"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","type_of_video":"Self Hosted","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"video_thumbnail":false,"disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_tiktok":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"featured_for_app":false,"legacy_meta_tags":"","is_guest_user":false,"episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"image_feature":null,"author_name":"Rohama Batool","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/isloo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}