Cellular services restored

Services restored after four-hour long suspension.


Web Desk October 27, 2012

After a four-hour long suspension, cellular services in cities including Lahore and Karachi were restored on Saturday, Express News reported.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik had announced on Friday that cellular services will be suspended in select parts of the country on the first day of Eidul Azha between 6am to 10am.

Interior ministry sources, however, revealed that cellular services will be suspended in three major cities in Punjab and Sindh, three areas in the Islamabad Capital Territory and several parts of Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Gilgit-Baltistan. They named Karachi, Rawalpindi, Multan, Sargodha, Quetta and Peshawar among the major cities where the services will be suspended.

Cellular services were earlier suspended for security reasons during Eidul Fitr and Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (pbuh). Detractors say the suspension of services create a nuisance for the public and overseas Pakistanis, apart from inflicting massive losses on cellular companies and by extension, the national exchequer.

COMMENTS (2)

M.Ahmer Ali | 11 years ago | Reply

Only temporary solutions are found and implemented in Pakistan to control terrorism in Pakistan by the incapable,unable and disable Pakistani leaders to create problems and difficulties for already miserable Pakistani nation.......

not impressed | 11 years ago | Reply

turn your phones off and on again to get them to start working!

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