Pakistan’s clerics declared VPNs un-Islamic, citing Sharia concerns. The government seeks to ban non-registered VPNs, threatening free expression and impacting Imran Khan supporters' protests.
Pakistan's State Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Shaza Fatima Khawaja on Sunday rebuffed claims of the government blocking or slowing the internet services and said that the slowdown is because of excessive Virtual Private Networks (VPN) usage by the people