On Wednesday, 48 hours after Taliban officials shut down telecommunications, mobile networks and the internet were reopened throughout Afghanistan.
The sudden outage of internet and mobile phone connectivity on Monday night left the South Asian nation in a state of confusion, cutting off Afghans from the outside world and freezing companies.
The major blackout occurred weeks after Hibatullah Akhundzada, the supreme commander, ordered the government to combat “immorality” by blocking high-speed internet access to some districts.
On Wednesday, AFP correspondents reported that wifi and mobile phone signals had returned to several provinces in the nation, including central Ghazni, Herat in the west, Khost in the east, and Kandahar in the south.