Afghanistan has plunged into digital darkness while the Taliban cut telecommunications services

The Taliban closed Internet and telecommunications services on Monday across Afghanistan, plunging the country into almost total digital darkness and attracting a “important damage” for citizens.

The power failure would have come after the fiber optic network of 9,350 kilometers in Afghanistan was disabled, leaving anchored flights, frozen banks and millions of citizens and cut companies.

Kabul International Airport has seen all the commercial flights canceled or marked as “unknown”, leaving the main air center of the practically deserted country, by Reuters.

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The Taliban did not publish a clear explanation for the power failure, affirming only that the suspension would last “until further notice”. (Wakil Kohsar / AFP via Getty Images)

Netblocks group surveillance has also confirmed Reuters This level of traffic had fallen to approximately one percent of normal, stressing the unprecedented magnitude of the disturbance.

According to Reuters, the Taliban ordered the internet and mobile data services across the country, diplomatic sources and industry confirming that the connectivity of mobile phones was collapsed.

Netblocks also confirmed that connectivity has been reduced to phases from Monday, the last step also affecting telephone services, which share the infrastructure with the Internet.

The national electricity failure seems to be part of a progressive campaign led by the Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada in Kabul. Earlier in September, he led the dismantling of fiber optic networks in many provinces.

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The Taliban chief, Hibatullah Akhundzada, had ordered the dismantling of the networks, according to Reuters. (Afghan Islamic Press via AP, file)

The officials defended this decision as a means of slowing down “immorality” online, echoing the previous declarations of provincial governors.

Reuters reported that Afghan telecommunications companies said they “managed this sensitive and complex situation” in the Taliban directives, while hoping to restore services soon.

The private broadcaster Tolo News, also quoted by Reuters, reported that the authorities had established a deadline for one week to close 3G and 4G Internet services for mobile phones, leaving only 2G active.

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The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (Unama) urged the Taliban to immediately restore full access to the country and Kabul (seen above) (Reuters / Ali Khara.)

In a press release, the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) urged the Taliban to restore access immediately and warned that the power outage “left Afghanistan almost completely cut in the outside world, and the risks inflicting significant damage to the Afghan people”.

Reuters also cited UN officials saying that the power outage had paralyzed humanitarian operations.

Arafat Jamal, the representative of the country of the United Nations agency for the United Nations, told journalists how he could no longer reach front -line humanitarian workers, including those who responded to a deadly earthquake in the east.

“This is another crisis in addition to the existing crisis,” he said via satellite Link de Kabul.

The Taliban administration could not be joined by Fox News Digital to comment.