ISLAMABAD: The government could not give a satisfactory answer to the Islamabad High Court on the slowness of the Internet, PTA said that the third cable in the sea was also cut yesterday.
A hearing was held in front of Chief Justice Amir Farooq on the petition filed in Islamabad High Court against internet slowdown and firewall. What is the reason for the issue in the Internet? The government could not give a satisfactory answer before the court.
The Islamabad High Court has asked for a detailed report from the government for the next hearing on September 3 and has summoned the member technical ministry of information technology for the next hearing in a personal capacity.
Chief Justice High Court Aamir Farooq said that all these things related to IT are owed to the Internet. Ministers are making contradictory statements. Sometimes there is a firewall and sometimes there is no firewall. The whole nation is confused.
The PTA lawyer said that earlier we found that two cables were cut and now we got a message yesterday that the third cable was also cut.
The court said that the case is pending in the Lahore High Court, no one is taking responsibility here either, the cable or cables have been cut, is the PTA responsible or who is it? Looking at the newspapers of the last ten days, there are conflicting statements of the Minister one day, one day another statement comes, the government is taking it so normal that he appears in the court and gives a statement that nothing is known.
The Deputy Attorney General said that no issue has arisen due to any of our installations.
The court said that the business community has been complaining for ten days, everyone related to the Internet is complaining, the government is saying it is bad, it is just bad, now it is not the old era when a phone was broken, it is bad.
Lawyer Iman Mazari said that the internet is running, the functions of WhatsApp are affected, the audio and video are not being sent properly, Chairman PTA has said that they are upgrading the web operating system.
The court said that if it is a matter of security and national interest, then give the report for the court to see, the court wants to know what has been going on. There is a problem in the system for one night, here it has been twelve to fourteen days.
