Pakistan, May 25 -- ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has officially stated that the recent disruption in access to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is not due to any local internet blockage, filtering, or government-imposed restriction. Instead, the outage is part of a broader global technical issue affecting multiple countries.

PTA issued this clarification following widespread complaints from Pakistani users who were unable to access X. The platform has experienced intermittent service outages since May 22, with a similar large-scale issue occurring that day which lasted for several hours before the platform was restored independently.

The authority further assured that a technical investigation con...