Pakistan ``Survived'' Major Web Outage

Internet services have been disrupted in large parts of the Middle East and India following damage to two undersea cables in the Mediterranean. There was disruption to 70% of the nationwide network in Egypt, and India suffered up to 60% disruption. Disruption also occurred in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. In Dubai, at least two internet service providers were affected.

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Does anyone notice that huge country geographically in the middle of this disruption area missing from the list? Indeed, Pakistan was hardly affected at all. At the office, Zeropoint.IT did feel some ``sluggishness'', but no outage or package loss was experienced at all. We believe this is another great sign of how Pakistan can gain trust in the area as a viable investment region. Its major infrastructure investments of lately already seem to be paying off!