High Court Orders Hearing on Pakistan’s Internet Outage Impact

The high court bench issued its reserved verdict over the petition hearing against the outage of the Internet and ordered all parties to appear in the next court hearing by their representatives.

Justice Shakil Ahmed of the LHC issued an order and adjourned further case hearings until August 21.

Challenging the internet outage in Pakistan a citizen in his petition said that the internet has been slowed down in Pakistan for unknown reasons. He argued that the internet outage has been affecting IT-related businesses.

“While the world is advancing with modern technology, Pakistan’s IT sector is being destroyed,” the petitioner said.

He maintained that Pakistani companies and youth were earning billions of rupees in foreign exchange through online businesses, adding that the internet outage is causing significant losses.

The petitioner requested the court to declare the internet outage void and direct the government not to shut down the internet in the future.