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00:00Everyone has this complaint that why is the internet slow in Pakistan?

00:04On one hand, there is an income from the internet.

00:06On the other hand, Pakistan's youth are selling their skills and earning a small amount of money for Pakistan.

00:12Which at this time has a life-threatening situation for Pakistan.

00:17On the other hand, the internet is slow.

00:19The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has said that there is a problem with the submarine cables.

00:24The problem is that it is not being solved.

00:27What is the problem behind this? We will talk about that too.

00:30But one more thing that we were hearing a lot is that the firewall is being installed.

00:34The name WMS has started to be used.

00:37Now, whether WMS and Firewall are the same or not, we have to talk about this.

00:41Let me keep WMS in front of you.

00:43PTA has started to block online materials and mobile applications under the web monitoring system in Pakistan.

00:49Approximately 2,369 websites and 183 mobile apps have been blocked so far.

00:56In the blocked websites, the personal data of the citizens is being publicized.

01:04That data can be very personal.

01:06There can be banking data in it.

01:07There can be a lot of other data in it.

01:09On the level of PTA's WMS system gateway, deep packet inspection technology has been used to monitor and control internet traffic.

01:18PTA has claimed that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has the ability to find out the reality of the materials.

01:26Now, whether WMS and Firewall are the same or not, we will talk about this.

01:31Mr. Fahad Haroon is with us.

01:33He is an SAP on digital media.

01:35Thank you very much, Mr. Fahad, for joining me in the program.

01:37It's a pleasure having you.

01:38Mr. Fahad, first of all, please tell us.

01:39Should we consider this as a confession of a crime?

01:41That WMS is a firewall about which everyone was saying that a firewall will be installed.

01:45Is this a firewall?

01:46What you are calling a firewall is basically a web management system.

01:50You have called it a web management system.

01:52It is a web management system through which pornographic material, all the websites that are illegal, are blocked.

02:00Such websites and things that are not according to the law…

02:04Let me get this straight.

02:06This web management system has been going on for a long time.

02:10Didn't it start just now?

02:11Didn't you install it?

02:12Because we are being told that the firewall has been installed just now.

02:14No, no.

02:15This web management system has been going on for a long time.

02:18All the pornographic websites that have been going on for a long time, have been blocked.

02:23What do you mean by a long time, Mr. Fahad?

02:25The trolls, the government, the PTI government,

02:30the PTI government had also written this letter to upgrade the web management system.

02:33In fact, they had written it.

02:35So you are saying that the firewall was also installed by the PTI government?

02:37Yes, this web management system was also there.

02:39They had written the first letter to upgrade it.

02:43Did you upgrade it?

02:45Yes, we are upgrading it.

02:47Let me explain to you a little about the internet.

02:52We have seven Sabreen cables that come from Pakistan.

02:56We have eight terabytes per second download.

03:02And the cache download, which we call CDM, is 12 TB per second.

03:09In total, Pakistan has a facility of 20 TB per second download.

03:14And we have 111 million internet users, which are increasing day by day.

03:21From last year January to this year January, we have a growth of more than 27% on the internet.

03:28Obviously, this is a case of supply and demand.

03:31And 80% of the internet users, which are 111 million plus users,

03:37are also used in social media apps.

03:41So one of our apps goes to petabytes.

03:46This is an issue of supply and demand.

03:49And this demand is ever-growing demand.

03:51I am sorry, I am cutting you short.

03:53With ever-growing demand, you should make internet access easier.

03:58Instead of putting a firewall on it or stopping it.

04:01You have so many users, so we will need more easy access.

04:05Yes, I am telling you that the internet has not been slowed down.

04:10Basically, in the last few days, you have received this clarification.

04:13Yes, two of our cables were out of order.

04:17One of them has been repaired.

04:19And one will be repaired in early October.

04:22So in other words, September and early October, the internet will remain slow.

04:27The internet has improved a lot.

04:29Obviously, there is a fault in the submarine cable.

04:32Faults occur all over the world.

04:34And this is a time-taking process.

04:37And obviously, this is a consortium that does it right.

04:42This is not in the hands of one person.

04:44Obviously, there are permissions and things.

04:47So obviously, we are involved.

04:48And obviously, this is happening right.

04:50And God willing, it will be right.

04:51But what I want to explain to you is that

04:53Out of the 8TB that was coming in the 7 cables,

04:581.5TB was lost.

05:001.5TB was lost and we have 6.5TB left.

05:04Now you see, for example, if you take India,

05:08India has about 140TB of download per terabyte per second.

05:13So if there is a loss of 1.5TB there, it is not such a big loss.

05:17But because our capacity is 8TB,

05:20there is a loss of 1.5TB and 6.5TB is left.

05:22If you add the cashier, you said there is 20TB.

05:24Yes, 12TB and 6.5TB.

05:26So now we have a total of 18.5TB.

05:30So if you compare India with this, it is 7 times more than us.

05:34But along with that, their population has also increased.

05:36Yes, yes, their population has increased.

05:37I am telling you that our 1.5TB,

05:39how much difference are you making from this?

05:41Because we are making a difference.

05:42In a big country, where there is more,

05:45and obviously they have 20 landing stations,

05:50they obviously have more,

05:52and we obviously have less.

05:54We have 170 ISPs and 4 telcos.

05:58Along with this cable fault,

06:00we have an issue that out of these 170 ISPs and 4 telcos,

06:05there are issues of reconfiguration.

06:07One major has a problem of reconfiguration.

06:10Because of that problem, obviously,

06:12the cable and reconfiguration of the internet was not good.

06:16Obviously, they were reconfiguring.

06:18So that took time.

06:19So obviously, now the internet has become much better.

06:21The cable has also become better.

06:23So the internet is good again.

06:25So you have carried the responsibility of reconfiguration on your shoulders.

06:28In other words, you are trying to say this.

06:29Yes, reconfiguration.

06:31These are hardware issues.

06:33Hardware, for everyone,

06:35something or the other keeps getting damaged.

06:37It gets upgraded.

06:38Please explain this to me.

06:39I remember, Shaza Fatima Sahiba had said that

06:41the use of VPN is also bringing a lot of load on the internet in Pakistan.

06:45Is this really true?

06:47Yes, the download of VPN is done in such a way

06:52that when the internet slowed down,

06:55because of the problem of Sabreen,

06:58the speed of the internet slowed down.

07:01So when that happened and the issue of reconfiguration came,

07:04people started downloading VPN.

07:07When VPN is downloaded,

07:09obviously, trolls started spreading that VPN should be downloaded.

07:14So obviously, what came out of the design,

07:18because they know that VPN slows down the system.

07:22But let me stop you here.

07:24VPN is not needed, Mr. Fahad,

07:26if you had not blocked X.

07:29People have to access social media websites.

07:31They have downloaded VPN.

07:33You are leaving the access open.

07:35They will not download VPN.

07:36In other words, you are hitting your own foot.

07:38You talked about X.

07:39Look, we cannot be blackmailed by anyone.

07:43Who is blackmailing?

07:45If someone does not follow the laws of our country,

07:51in a neighboring country,

07:53and does not follow it in our country,

07:54how can this happen?

07:55If there is a blasphemous content going on in our country,

07:59a pornographic content is going on,

08:01terrorism content is going on.

08:03You just saw what happened in Balochistan.

08:05You saw what happened in all things.

08:06If we do not follow those things,

08:07if we do not follow our laws,

08:09if we do not follow our rules,

08:10then you know that obviously,

08:12these are blockings for public safety.

08:15And it has happened all over the world.

08:17So before blocking X,

08:19did you reach out to them?

08:21Yes, we did.

08:22Was it not working according to our laws?

08:23Yes, we reached out many times.

08:25What was the response of X?

08:26So obviously, they used to have an auto response many times.

08:29Or we do not have a person to reach out to them.

08:33There is no person in Pakistan.

08:35It has happened in Brazil too.

08:37In Brazil too, they refused to give their person.

08:40They suspended them because they were not following their laws.

08:43So if no one in the world follows the law,

08:46if they follow it in some other country and not in ours,

08:48if they follow it in a neighboring country and not in ours,

08:50how can this happen?

08:52Their offices are open in neighboring countries,

08:54but not in our country.

08:56So these are different things.

08:59And obviously, we have to safeguard our state, our country.

09:04And this is Pakistan's digital frontier.

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