In her home in Karachi, the financial center of Pakistan, freelancer Zainub Khatib felt powerless as she made every effort to deliver her project to a client abroad while her internet kept crashing. Meanwhile, Syeda Aatika, a Lahore university student, found it difficult to turn in her year-end projects as her home Wi-Fi network went down for the third day in a row.
These are not isolated events; rather, they represent snippets of a larger issue that engulfed the entire nation in 2024. The year was marked by ongoing internet issues that not only interfered with Pakistanis’ daily lives but also slowed down the country’s IT-based economy and threatened its digital future.
Sajjad Mustafa Syed, the chairman of the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA).
