KARACHI: Having been restored only hours ago around midnight, cell phone services were shut once more on Saturday morning, Express News reported.
Services had been suspended in Karachi and Quetta on Friday afternoon before they were reopened minutes before the clocks struck midnight. However, as the hour hands neared six am, the services started going offline one after another.
While Friday's suspension was limited to Karachi and Quetta, Saturday's ban extends to nearly 50 cities. Services are expected to remain switched off in sensitive spots for almost 40 hours.
Earlier on Friday, Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced that the services are due to go down from Saturday through Sunday as part of the measures to prevent any untoward incident.
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@Hussain: But dear Hussaun u c dat dis strategy of blocking cell phones has proved ri8....we got to raise our hands n co-operate wid our policy makerz...!!
I don't understand the reason behind the blockage of services since most bombings are conducted by suicide bombers any ways. Also the government is responsible for stopping such attacks not merely taking precautions which seems to be what is happening. Even with the service blocked, incidents did happen so we need to think about the actual impact .. Why when cell phone jammers are used to protect politicians can they not also be used to protect sensitive areas? And talking about Politicians if they stopped using the police force as their personal security force we might actually see some benefit from them.
I have a warid sim too and mine also has no network coverage. this is certainly most unfair. there is an emergency in family and i cant contact anyone..ughhh
Why Ufone and Warid are active and others are blocked? Does it mean that Mobilink,Telenor and Zong are used for terrorism and the terrorists mostly use Mobilink,Telenor and Zong only??????
It is appropriate action taken by govt to control the negative use of mobile facility, bcz all is fair in love and war and we are in position of war against terrorists, so should take all risks to save the lives of innocent people and pakistan.terrorists use the cell phones for bombs so since we can't eliminate terrorism from out country, we can live without the cell phones for a couple of days
Telenor customers are suffering still by this time. Not yet operational
It is opened for six hours only i.e. from 12 midnight to 6 am and then will gain shut down from 6 am to 12 midnight.
The same drill will be repeated again on 10th of Moharram.
After the cell phone service is restored, I am sending two text messages at a time (1) Good Night and (2) Good Morning to all of my friends.
Ufone and Warid are back... Dear Telenor !!! why so delay?
I had a good day without cell-phone. Peaceful and without any tension of getting a call from office.