{"id":3287,"date":"2024-12-04T10:32:23","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=3287"},"modified":"2024-12-04T10:32:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T10:32:24","slug":"3287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=3287","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The IT industry has claimed that one hour of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1875974\/govt-dismisses-internet-disruptions-as-users-report-nationwide-outages-again\">internet outage<\/a>\u00a0or disruption results in a loss of more than one million dollars for the whole sector, including export businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In a media talk on Tuesday, Pakis\u00adtan Software Houses Association (P@sha) Chairman Sajjad Mustafa Syed said authorities have acknowledged that Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) cannot be banned as there was no law to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Syed, who heads the premier representative body of the country\u2019s IT industry, added the association had informed the IT ministry and the Pakistan Telecommuni\u00adcation Autho\u00adrity (PTA) that regular internet slowdowns and unannounced disruptions were hurting IT service exports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have told the government that a one-hour internet slowdown might not have any significant impact on people, but disturbed services to a client in any stock market, airport service, bank, etc., in advanced countries would eventually lead to loss of confidence in Pakistan\u2019s IT sector,\u201d Mr Syed said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The IT industry has claimed that one hour of\u00a0internet outage\u00a0or disruption results in a loss of more than one million dollars for the whole sector, including export businesses. In a media talk on Tuesday, Pakis\u00adtan Software Houses Association (P@sha) Chairman Sajjad Mustafa Syed said authorities have acknowledged that Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) cannot be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3289,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3287\/revisions\/3289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}