{"id":8208,"date":"2024-02-20T02:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T02:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2024-02-20T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T02:01:45","slug":"services-of-x-disrupted-in-pakistan-in-routine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/?p=8208","title":{"rendered":"Services of X disrupted in Pakistan in routine&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"8209\" src=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FB_IMG_1708394341490-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FB_IMG_1708394341490-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FB_IMG_1708394341490-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FB_IMG_1708394341490-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/FB_IMG_1708394341490.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> ISLAMABAD: Services of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, remained disrupted for the third consecutive day in Pakistan on Monday.According to Downdetector, the outage was reported a little after 10:30am and persisted till noon. Services were restored around 12:24pm but were again disrupted after 1pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users, showed that the areas most affected were Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore and Gujranwala among others.The disruption makes it the third consecutive day where X services have been affected amid allegations of rigging in the February 8 polls.On Saturday, internet monitor Netblocks had reported a nationwide disruption to X \u201camid escalating unrest and protests over allegations of election fraud, following a high-level resignation and public admission of vote manipulation by a senior election official\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The outage was reported after former Rawalpindi commissioner Liaqat Ali Chattha, in an explosive press conference, had accused the Election Commission of Pakistan and Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of involvement in the \u201crigging\u201d \u2014 a claim denied by the electoral watchdog and the top judge.Chattha had claimed the candidates who were \u201closing\u201d the elections \u201cwere made to win\u201d and that the process to justify the manipulated results was still going in \u201can organised manner at some offices\u201d.On Sunday, Netblocks said its metrics showed that X had been restricted in Pakistan for 24 hours and called it \u201cthe latest and longest in a series of nation-scale internet censorship measures imposed by authorities as reports of election fraud emerge\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Services of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, remained disrupted for the third consecutive day in Pakistan on Monday.According to Downdetector, the outage was reported a little&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8210,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voiceofmelange.global\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}