ISLAMABAD: Internet speed slowed down across Pakistan after a submarine cable cut degraded broadband services in the South Asian nation late Monday, the Pakistani telecom regulator said.
The fault was reported at a distance of around 400 kilometers off the coast of Pakistan toward the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman, Geo News reported.
“A cable cut has been reported in TransWorld (TW1) submarine cable system at about 6pm on Monday,” the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a statement.
It said the fault had caused an outage of international bandwidth and might result in degradation of services for Transworld bandwidth users.
“The consortium is arranging adhoc bandwidth to minimize the impact. Efforts are going on to ascertain exact location of the fault and expected restoration time,” the PTA said.
In October last year, an AAE-1 submarine cable fault near Fujairah also caused disruption in Internet services across Pakistan. The AAE-1 is one of the six international submarine cables landing in Pakistan.
Pakistan has 110 million broadband subscriptions, according to the PTA.
Faulty submarine cable slows Internet speed across Pakistan
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Faulty submarine cable slows Internet speed across Pakistan
- A cut has been reported in TransWorld (TW1) submarine cable system
- Efforts are ongoing to ascertain exact location of the fault, restoration time
Pakistan police, security forces kill 12 militants in separate operations
- The operations were conducted in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Karak, Balochistan’s Kalat districts
- The country is currently battling twin insurgencies in both provinces that border Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s police and security forces have gunned down 12 militants in separate operations in two western provinces that border Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday.
Police launched an operation in a mountainous area of Karak district in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, following reports of militant presence, according to Karak police spokesman Shaukat Khan.
The operation resulted in the killing of at least eight militants, while several others were wounded in the exchange of fire with law enforcers. Karak police chief Saud Khan led the heavy police contingent alongside personnel from intelligence agencies.
“Several militant hideouts located in the mountainous terrain between Kohat and Karak districts were dismantled during the operation,” Khan told Arab News on Sunday evening, adding the operation was still ongoing.
Separately, security forces killed four “Indian-sponsored” separatist militants in an intelligence-based operation in Kalat district of the southwestern Balochistan province, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the Pakistani military’s media wing.
“Weapons, ammunition and explosives were also recovered from the terrorists, who remained actively involved in numerous terrorist activities in the area,” the ISPR said in a statement.
“Sanitization operations are being conducted to eliminate any other Indian sponsored terrorist found in the area.”
Pakistan, which has been facing a surge in militancy, has long accused Afghanistan of allowing its soil and India of backing militant groups, including the TTP, for attacks against Pakistan. Kabul and New Delhi have consistently denied this.
