The Afghanistan Media Support Organization (AMSO), in a statement, strongly condemned the Taliban’s shutdown and restriction of fiber optic internet in several provinces of the country.

The Taliban have extended restrictions on internet services beyond Balkh and Badakhshan, and now to the provinces of Kunduz and Takhar. Local sources in these two provinces confirm that, at the order of the Taliban governors, access to fiber optic internet has been completely suspended and all service providers have been forced to disconnect users.

Local sources in Zabul say that the Taliban have also banned access to the internet in this province.

As part of the systematic project of repression and darkening of Afghanistan, the Taliban this time have declared the use of the internet in Helmand province prohibited. This decision was made after, in recent days, access to the internet in the provinces of Badakhshan, Balkh and Kandahar was completely cut off, and the Taliban officially called its use “immoral” and “forbidden.” Now it is Helmand’s turn, another key province that the Taliban have silenced by crushing digi