{"id":74518,"date":"2025-09-30T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/30\/afghanistan-mobile-phones-internet-telecoms-blackout-taliban"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:16:07","slug":"afghanistan-blind-without-phones-and-internet-on-second-day-of-telecoms-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74518","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan \u2018blind without phones and internet\u2019 on second day of telecoms blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities cut fibre-optic network in nationwide shutdown of communications to prevent \u2018vice\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Afghans are living under a near-complete communications blackout after Taliban authorities cut internet and mobile phone services for a second day as part of an unprecedented country-wide crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>The former insurgents, who retook control of Afghanistan in 2021, began gradual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/23\/taliban-afghanistan-internet-shutdown-women-girls-education-hope\">restrictions on internet access earlier this month<\/a>. The measures also affect telephone lines, as they are often routed over the internet.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/30\/afghanistan-mobile-phones-internet-telecoms-blackout-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taliban authorities cut fibre-optic network in nationwide shutdown of communications to prevent \u2018vice\u2019Afghans are living under a near-complete communications blackout after Taliban authorities cut internet and mobile phone services for a second day as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3304,"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":[46,351,61,44,2650,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-internet","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-telecoms","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\/74518","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\/3304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74529,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74518\/revisions\/74529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}