2024-02-08
Mobile phone service cut off in Pakistan on election day... there's already been a major crackdown on Imran Khan's party in the lead up to the vote Decision was taken by security forces, but in the previous elections despite greater / at least equal threat level it wasn't cut
Nikkei Asia
Pakistan suspended mobile services across the country as voters went to the polls on February 8; the Interior Ministry cited a deteriorating security situation
Outages in name of security fuel suspicion over polls' legitimacy — Poll workers walk past police officers outside a voting station in Peshawar on Feb. 8.