The Taliban government in Afghanistan has imposed a nationwide shutdown of telecommunications, weeks after it began severing fibre-optic internet connections.

The country is currently experiencing a "total internet blackout", internet watchdog Netblocks reports.

International news agencies say they have lost contact with offices in the capital Kabul. Mobile internet and satellite TV have also been severely disrupted across Afghanistan.

The Taliban have yet to give an official reason for the shutdown. Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban have imposed numerous restrictions in accordance with their interpretation of Islamic Sharia law.

A Taliban official said the telecom shutdown would last until further notice.

Tolo News, a privately owned Afghan news channel, told people to follow its social media pages for updates as it expected disruptions to its television and radio networks.

Flights from Kabul airport have also been disrupted, local media reported.

According to Flight tracking service Flightradar24, at least eight flights scheduled to depart from or arrive at Kabul International Airport on Tuesday have been cancelled.

Diplomatic officials have told the BBC that the internet cuts could affect banking and e-commerce systems nationwide.

Several people in Kabul have told the BBC that their fibre-optic internet stopped working towards the end of the working day, around 17:00 local time (12:30 GMT)
Because of this, it is understood many people will not notice the impact until Tuesday morning, when banking services and other businesses are due to resume.

Fibre-optic cables transfer data super fast, and are used for much of the world's internet.

The BBC understands that a committee in Kabul has been tasked to examine potentially "filtering" fibre-optic internet in order to "prevent immoralities". The committee would also determine whether the fibre-optic ban would be enforced across the country, they said.

In a post on social network Mastodon.social, Netblocks said:
"Afghanistan is now in the midst of a total internet blackout as Taliban authorities move to implement morality measures, with multiple networks disconnected through the morning in a stepwise manner; telephone services are currently also impacted".

For weeks internet users in several Afghan provinces have been complaining about either slow internet access or no connectivity.

Several residents, who requested anonymity, previously told the BBC that their businesses and lives had been seriously affected by the internet cuts.

A man who works as a money changer in Takhar province said that his daughters' online English classes were disrupted. "Their last opportunity to study and stay engaged is now gone," he said.

Another woman previously told the BBC that she could not attend online classes since her home internet was cut off. "I had hoped to finish my studies and find an online job, but that dream has also been destroyed," she said. "Without internet access, I don't know what will happen next."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxqdy5nrlqo

Going backwards instead of progressing for the betterment of their society.

starlink kan ada....

internet for high rank officer only for twitter/x

Now they are 1 step closer back to the days when the religion is formed.

Salute such effort and dedication to go back to the roots.

PuAS wet dream
Thank god for multiculturalism here

Kelantan should follow suit...

Hard didi busy taking notes

they gonna use birds to pass msg. like demon slayer

PuAS Bawang delighted

they and their family shld migrate there

No fear up rising orang muda meh?

what else they can do besides failed state. civil war soon maybe? want to prepare for removing dissidents?

dont worry la...everyting is temporarily only..once we leave tis world, thats the new beginning

ya man, going backward is their aim. hope when they go back until they realize .......

worst than north korea?

built more caves

Literally ban internet
No more fake news
No sedicksi act
Lel

Fake news. Taliban no 1 consumer of porn.

If cut what source? VHS?

they use this issit?



Like that; can play hide and kill game with them

cassette tape

Tepaling alim states: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

Tepaling alim states: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

PAS has been real quite ever since taliban isn't what they say they are

they cut of peons je. for themselves sure still keep it

any non citizen still there deserve it.
all the smart people left.

Cut off fap fap material so they could concentrate on more productive effort to increase population

I'm not surprised...Taliban mah...

Certain political doctrine want people to be poor and poorly educated, depending on gomen handout, so the elite could control them.

double posted.


This post has been edited by icemanfx: Sep 30 2025, 04:30 PM

Leader wants all the bandwidth for his prawn theater owai...

Especially among family members.

internet considered un-islamic ke?

Best, sini bila lagi?

Didnt some walaun in /k said they wanted to live under Taliban rule?

8K or higher?

This MFK should go back to stone age

how to sell them starlink, anybody knows smugglers?

Looking some videos on Tube show Afghan actually prospering under them..

New shoplot, garden and lake and garden are clean and taken cared, new korean / chinese cars on the road.

Probably these BBC reports are temporary cut-off or internet glitch, rather than total shut-off.

I hope so but cutting internet is not a good show to show progression, at least to me.

let's see how this unfolds further down the line...

No internet? those were the best days of my life

time to breed , wait for the final clash

let see how long they can last without ghey porn...owai...

tot itll become like nepal

Easily brainwash and control the sheep.

Yet some idiots here still praise and lick taliban

Kaki report in full force

UN calls for Taliban to restore internet as Afghanistan goes dark
By Juliette Mansour and Qubad Wali
Wed, 1 October 2025


Infographic chart of data from UK monitoring group NetBlocks showing the drop of internet connectivity in Afghanistan after Taliban authorities imposed a nationwide shutdown on September 29.

The United Nations called on Afghanistan's Taliban authorities Tuesday to immediately restore internet and telecommunications in the country, 24 hours after a nationwide blackout was imposed.

The government began shutting down high-speed internet connections to some provinces earlier this month to prevent "immorality", on the orders of shadowy supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada.

Mobile phone signal and internet service weakened on Monday night until connectivity was less than one percent of ordinary levels.

Afghans are unable to contact each other, online businesses and the banking systems have frozen, and diaspora abroad cannot send crucial remittances to family.

All flights were cancelled at Kabul airport on Tuesday, AFP journalists saw.

"The cut in access has left Afghanistan almost completely cut off from the outside world, and risks inflicting significant harm on the Afghan people, including by threatening economic stability and exacerbating one of the world's worst humanitarian crises," the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement.

"The current blackout also constitutes a further restriction on access to information and freedom of expression in Afghanistan," it added.

The UN rights office called the blackout an "extremely serious human rights violation".

"Women and girls already excluded from public life are especially affected," it said on social media Tuesday, calling for immediate reconnection.

It is the first time since the Taliban government won their insurgency in 2021 and imposed a strict version of Islamic law that communications have been shut down in the country.

"I came to work this morning but we cannot run any business because clients do not have access to online banking, transactions, cash withdrawal, or money authorisation," a bank worker who asked not to be named told AFP in Kabul.

"When there was internet, we never felt how important it was."

The post office was also unable to operate because it required bank services to carry out its work, staff told AFP.

- Radio communications -

Minutes before the shutdown on Monday evening, a government official warned AFP that the fibre optic network would be cut, impacting mobile phone services, "until further notice".

"There isn't any other way or system to communicate... the banking sector, customs, everything across the country will be affected," said the official, who asked not to be named.

Telephone services are often routed over the internet, sharing the same fibre optic lines, especially in countries with limited telecoms infrastructure.

The telecommunications ministry refused to let journalists enter the building in Kabul on Tuesday.

A UN source said Tuesday that "operations are severely impacted, falling back to radio communications and limited satellite links".

AFP journalists witnessed Taliban security forces using radios to communicate with each other at public buildings such as the airport and post office.

Over the past weeks, internet connections have been extremely slow or intermittent.

On September 16, when the first internet services were cut in northern provinces, Balkh provincial spokesman Attaullah Zaid said the ban had been ordered by the Taliban's leader.

"This measure was taken to prevent vice, and alternative options will be put in place across the country to meet connectivity needs," he wrote on social media.

"Recent studies in Afghanistan found that internet applications have badly affected the ongoing, economic, cultural and religious foundations of society," he claimed.

The Taliban leader reportedly ignored warnings from some officials this month about the economic fallout of cutting the internet and ordered authorities to press ahead with a nationwide ban.

Netblocks, a watchdog organisation that monitors cybersecurity and internet governance, said the blackout "appears consistent with the intentional disconnection of service".

On Tuesday, it said connectivity had flatlined below one percent, with no restoration of service observed.

In 2024, Kabul had touted the 9,350-kilometre (5,800-mile) fibre optic network -- largely built by former US-backed governments -- as a "priority" to bring the country closer to the rest of the world and lift it out of poverty.

Source: https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/taliban-i...-044939947.html

Birds? Why so kejam? Have to travel long distances just to send a message.... use smoke signals instead lar.... easier....

Plot twist - this made in America, and have "detonation" device in it when called by CIA....

so this is how the Taliban has 'changed'.

Malaysia and Taliban are all Sunnis

they kinda got it right
one of the ways to live back the 80's era
back to the good ol days
they know somethin we obviously don't

This post has been edited by machomama: Oct 1 2025, 12:03 PM

And then use smoke.

Taliban: Noo, my black and orange youtube

Then how the talibun bawang access prawnhub? Means no fapping?

Sure cut lah. Trump already say want to retake Afghanistan. You don't want them to start Arab spring movement mah. Even though they probably still can use star link in that country

Rename Internet to Talibanet. Then can reinstate.

Nobody give a fark.

As long they don't go bom kau others country and host terrorists around, the west won't give a fark.

Even they cut down all their com or toast their phone or pc to fire.

I think house of the curry bun leaders still got internet.

If not how they are going to enjoy kid, hijab prawns…

kelantan susoh la wei, nanti ore kito merajuk tak boleh tengok gay prawn macam mano?

goats kan ada

It won't be a surprise internet connection in Afghanistan was funded by USAID.

Back then those days were simple..
Back then no internet.

We going back then

rich in rare earth minerals and opium

they dont give a fuck

USA openly say they want Afghan Bagram air base.

USA often do color upbringing to change government, from Middle East to Ukraine to Malaysia. So Afghan has to cut off internet as precaution. Smart move.

Filthy dirty Talibanana knows scared of revolt. So bola kecut and u turn. So pathetic it’s actually sad.

On Wednesday evening hundreds of Afghans took the streets in the capital city Kabul to spread the word that the internet was back.

One man told BBC Afghan: "Everyone is happy, holding their cell phones and talking to their relatives.

"From women, to men and Talibs [a member of the Taliban], each was talking on phones after services were restored. There are more crowds now in the city."

Suhail Shaheen, a senior Taliban spokesman in Qatar, said "all communications" were restored by Wednesday afternoon.

The Taliban government has not given an official explanation for the shutdown.

An Afghan man fans grilled chicken at his market stall in Kabul, Afghanistan after an internet shutdown was lifted
People took to the streets in Kabul to celebrate after internet and phone services were restored.

However, last month, a spokesperson for the Taliban governor in the northern province of Balkh said internet access was being blocked "for the prevention of vices".

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

Afghan women have told the BBC that the internet was a lifeline to the outside world since the Taliban banned girls over the age of 12 from receiving an education.

Women's job options have also been severely restricted and in September, books written by women were removed from universities.

Must protect against false stories like Al Zutt, etc.,

Then how do taliban renew their driving license and check for their petrol subsidi, without internet?

wow terrorist pakai laptop jenama DELL,

POtong internet so now they cannot watch porn.

fake news la..fiber optic cut/worned out..alrd restored lel