{"id":74502,"date":"2025-09-30T01:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/afghanistan-communications-blackout-taliban-shuts-internet"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:28:58","slug":"afghanistan-hit-by-communications-blackout-after-taliban-shuts-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74502","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan hit by communications blackout after Taliban shuts internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms disrupted nationwide after authorities cut fibre-optic connections in several provinces to prevent \u2018vice\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A huge communications blackout has hit Afghanistan after Taliban authorities began severing fibre-optic connections in several provinces to prevent \u201cvice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA nationwide telecoms blackout is now in effect,\u201d said Netblocks, a watchdog organisation that monitors cybersecurity and internet governance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/29\/afghanistan-communications-blackout-taliban-shuts-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telecoms disrupted nationwide after authorities cut fibre-optic connections in several provinces to prevent \u2018vice\u2019A huge communications blackout has hit Afghanistan after Taliban authorities began severing fibre-optic connections in several provinces t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,351,61,44,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-internet","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74503,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74502\/revisions\/74503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}