Twitter’s predecessor, X, announced on Thursday that it will cooperate with Pakistan’s government “to understand its concerns” following the government’s insistence that a two-month ban was necessary for security reasons.
Since February 17, when the party of imprisoned former prime minister Imran Khan called for rallies after a government official admitted to manipulating votes in the February election, the platform—formerly known as Twitter—has been mostly inaccessible.
In their first remarks since the site’s disruption, X’s Global Government Affairs team stated, “We continue to work with the Pakistani Government to understand their concerns.”
According to a report given to the Islamabad High Court, where one of numerous challenges to the ban is being examined, the Interior Ministry stated on Wednesday that X was prohibited for security reasons.
The government was given a week to restore access to social networking site X by the Sindh High Court on the same day.
A lawyer opposing the ban, Moiz Jaaferi, told AFP that the government has been given a week by the Sindh High Court to retract the letter; if they don’t, they would issue the necessary instructions on the following date.
This week is anticipated to see the publication of the court’s whole ruling.
For weeks, neither the government nor the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) would discuss the outages.
