
In no time, our stories got picked up by the likes of Forbes, Foxnews, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, Macrumors, and many others. PiunikaWeb started as purely an investigative tech journalism website with main focus on ‘breaking’ or ‘exclusive’ news. According to reports, the online messenger app was down for numerous users across the world, but it has since been restored for users in India. Whatever the case, we’ll post an update once WhatsApp and other social media applications come back online in Pakistan. WhatsApp is down This is what people on Twitter have been discussing over the past couple of hours after the Facebook-owned app was hit by a brief outage. Top social-media platforms WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook went down late Monday night as a suspected global outage. It’s common for governments to block access to social media apps amid rapidly growing protests to maintain public safety and to avoid the spread of false information.Īlthough, at times it’s also used to suppress voices. Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp partially reconnect after 6-hour global outage. If the instructions are to be followed to the dot, the apps should start working in a couple of hours. WhatsApp and other social media apps had to go down in Pakistan to maintain public order and safety amid protests by a religious party that led to chaos and the killing of three people, including two policemen. The temporary ban on the apps came into effect at 11 am and is scheduled to be in place till 3 pm in the country.Īs a result, many confused citizens have been wondering why WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Telegram are down in Pakistan. The Ministry of Interior reportedly gave orders to block Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, and Telegram in Pakistan.įollowing the orders, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked these apps in the country.
