US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller has said that the formation of a new government is an internal matter for Pakistan, but Washington always wants complete freedom of the Internet in the world, including platforms that allow people to communicate with each other. Use to do.
During the daily press briefing, he replied to a question regarding the disruption in the services of social media website X in Pakistan and said, “We want an internet platform.” We want the internet platform to be available to people in Pakistan and around the world. And I have nothing more to say than that.’
“I have seen the report,” Matthew Miller said in response to a question raised by the US spokesperson about a senior Pakistani official’s admission of helping to rig the election. Every claim of interference or rigging should be fully and transparently investigated in accordance with Pakistan’s own laws and procedures.’
When a journalist asked the spokesperson, would you also like to see the political leadership of Pakistan respect the mandate of PTI candidates? So he said, ‘I don’t want to get involved in any internal issue of Pakistan, of course the formation of a new government is necessary. But this is a matter I leave to Pakistan.
‘As I said, when it comes to any claims of interference or allegations of rigging, we want them to be fully investigated.’
Responding to a question about the meeting of the US ambassador to Pakistan with the former foreign minister two days after the election, Matthew Miller said, ‘I will not talk about private diplomatic engagements, but we have made it clear that we will not discuss any Want a thorough investigation into any allegations of irregularities or alleged irregularities.’
A large number of social media users in Pakistan have been unable to access social networking website X for the past several days.
The service of social media website X (formerly Twitter) which was affected on Saturday night in Pakistan could not be restored even on Wednesday.
Twitter Inc. said Friday night that it was working to resolve the issues after thousands of users reported complaints.
In this regard, when journalists questioned Pakistan’s Information and Broadcasting Minister Murtaza Solangi outside Parliament on Tuesday, he said, ‘Who did X to X? It would be better if you contact the Ministry of Information Technology and Chairman PTA.’
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The last time Twitter faced such an outage was in October 2020, which was explained by the company as an internal system problem. Is.
When Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTI) spokesperson Malahat Ubaid was asked why X (formerly Twitter) is not working in Pakistan for the last two or three days, he told Independent Urdu that you are not working in this regard. Contact the Ministry of Interior.
Internet monitor NetBlocks confirmed on February 17 that X has been affected nationally in Pakistan following widespread protests in the country over alleged vote rigging in the general election.
The shutdown of social media platforms in Pakistan adds to the frustration of users who rely on these platforms for communication and information.
While all the major parties in Pakistan rely on Twitter to communicate their position and information about their party policy to the people, and with the closure of this platform, that connection has also been cut off. However, apart from Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf, no major political party has raised its voice on this issue so far.
Before and after the elections on February 8, 2024, Pakistani users are facing internet outages as well as Twitter issues.
Many people also resort to VPN for these problems, a VPN is a service that allows users to bypass any internet restrictions imposed in their country, but many users are also Those who do not know much about VPN services.
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2024-07-28 04:08:13