'Creeping coup': In Pakistan, lack of internet access is costing livelihoods

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'Creeping coup': In Pakistan, lack of internet access is costing livelihoods - Eco-Business

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Internet outages and slow speeds lead to economic loss, but campaigners say the government is trying to muffle critics.

Aziz said it was clear the government’s aim was to clamp down on free speech and dissent.“Never before,” she said, has the government “been able to disrupt a whole function of an app; usually the entire website or application stops working.

Internet speeds have dropped by more than 30 per cent in the last three months, Shahzad Arshad, chairman of the Wireless and Internet Providers Association of Pakistan, an advisory body of internet service providers, told Context.