Tech Desk 
Nov 24, 2024
An undated image of WhatsApp. — Getty Images
While the government of Pakistan has taken various measures to derail the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) rally, netizens reported WhatsApp disruptions across the country on Saturday.
Coming days following the Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) cautioning the government of the dire consequences of deliberate internet restrictions and virtual private network (VPN) ban, the purported WhatsApp outage triggered the inability to send and receive messages, photos and videos.
Is WhatsApp down in Pakistan?
According to the outage reporting website Downdetector, the disruption peaked at around 10pm on Saturday (November 23) as 225 user complaints were recorded.
The outage breakdown on Downdetector showed that 67% of complainants encountered problems when sending messages and 16% while receiving messages.
Most of the reports about the WhatsApp outage were lodged from Punjab, while KP witnessed disruption fluctuations as Karachi remained the most affected in the entire Sindh, according to the heat map on the outage tracker.
The IT industry also confirmed the WhatsApp outage, acknowledging issues with sharing media files on the Meta-owned messaging platform.
