One morning when the whole country woke up, the world was cut off from the world … Taliban imposed ‘digital lock’ in Afghanistan

Think, you wake up from sleep one morning and do not run internet in your phone. There is no WhatsApp message, no news, nor you can contact anyone in the world. Thinking how strange it seems, isn’t it?

For crores of people of Afghanistan, this is not a scary imagination, but a reality that they have been forced to live. The Taliban government has heard the decree to discontinue internet services across the country, which has submerged the whole country in a ‘digital dark’.

Why did the Taliban take this step?

The Taliban government has given a strange argument behind it. He says that on the internet, especially on platforms like Tiktok and Pubg, ‘immoral’ material was shown which was ‘misleading’ the youth of Afghanistan.

Earlier this ban was imposed only in some areas like Panjshir Valley, where Taliban is the highest opposition. But now, this decision has been implemented to the entire country, causing Afghanistan to be almost completely cut off from the rest of the world.

This is not just internet shutdown

This decision is not just to ban entertainment or social media. Its results are very deep and dangerous:

• Truth lock: Now the world will not be able to easily know what is actually happening inside Afghanistan. The atrocities on people or the stories of their sufferings will now be buried in the boundaries of the country.
• Voice suppresses: For those who wanted to tell the world their condition in a suppressed voice, this last path has also been closed.
• Return of a dark round: This step is reminiscent of the old era of the Taliban when he banned TV, music and everything in the modern world. This is like separating Afghanistan from the world once again.

This is not just a ban on the Internet, but it is a lock of the freedom of the people, their voice and their open eyes, so that the inner screams do not reach the outside world.