ISLAMABAD: Internet services were disrupted in parts of country. Development has caused great deal of problems for people belonging to different fields while it also affected work in banks and government offices.

Internet services provided by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd suffered disruption across country, company said. “PTCL network is facing data outage in various cities due to which connectivity has been affected,” PTCL spokesperson Amir Pasha said. “Our teams are actively working to resolve and rectify issue at earliest,” he added.  Meanwhile, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority spokesperson Malahat Obaid attributed disruption to “Fault in PTCL system”. “Internet/broadband users may experience degraded services during peak hours,” she said, explaining that disruption may affect PTCL users and those internet service providers using PTCL’s bandwidth. Spokesperson added teams were currently fixing fault while PTA was monitoring situation till internet/broadband services were back to normal. Dr Shahid Farooq Alvi President of Pakistan Telecommunication Access Provider Association confirmed that PTCL’s internet services “All over Pakistan, were not working. He said PTCL provided 70 percent of internet services in country. Global internet monitor Netblocks said ,Live network data [showed] nation-scale disruption to internet connectivity in Pakistan”.