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- Afghanistan's cellphone, internet services down, monitoring shows</p>
<p>September 29, 2025 at 11:50 PM</p>
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<p>A general view of the city of Kabul</p>
<p>KABUL (Reuters) -Internet and mobile telephone services were down across Afghanistan on Tuesday, residents and monitoring services said, but the Taliban administration offered no immediate explanation.</p>
<p>In the past, the Taliban have voiced concern about online pornography, and authorities cut fibre-optic links to some provinces in recent weeks, with officials citing morality concerns.</p>
<p>Internet connectivity in Afghanistan was flatlining around the 1% mark, said NetBlocks, an international internet access monitoring organisation.</p>
<p>Connectivity was cut in phases on Monday, with the final stage affecting telephone services, which share infrastructure with the Internet, NetBlocks said in an email to Reuters.</p>
<p>Private channel Tolo News, which warned viewers of a disruption to its services, said authorities had set a one-week deadline for the shutdown of 3G and 4G internet services for cell phones, leaving only the older 2G standard active.</p>
<p>Cloudfare Radar, a global internet traffic monitor, said that Kabul, the capital, suffered the sharpest drop in internet connectivity, followed by the western city of Herat and Kandahar in the south.</p>
<p>Strictures ordered by the Taliban leadership, based in Kandahar, have grown increasingly hardline.</p>
<p>This month, authorities stopped women working for the United Nations from entering its offices. Earlier, women were banned from many lines of employment and girls from attending high school.</p>
<p>The Taliban have said they respect women's rights in line with their interpretation of Islamic law.</p>
<p>Women's rights activist Sanam Kabiri said the Taliban had already closed schools, universities, recreation, and sports facilities for women.</p>
<p>"The Taliban are using every tool at their disposal to suppress the people," said Kabiri, who is based outside of Afghanistan, told journalists in a video posting.</p>
<p>"What else do these ignorant men of another century want from our oppressed people?"</p>
<p>Women faced with curbs on leaving their homes to work had turned to the internet for an economic lifeline that allowed some to work from home.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, however, the Taliban have engaged with U.S. officials, especially regarding American citizens detained in Afghanistan, one of whom they released on Sunday.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Mohammad Yunus Yawar; additional reporting by Hritam Mukherjee; Writing by Saeed Shah; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)</p>
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