80pc of traffic from faulty internet cable moved to other lines, says IT minister

ISLAMABAD: The internet disruption caused by a fault in one of the submarine cables landing in Pakistan has “largely” been restored, the IT minister said on Saturday.

The Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1) cable, one of the seven internet cables landing in Pakistan, developed a fault near Qatar on Thursday, leaving the country short of at least one terabits per second (tbps) bandwidth.

In a media briefing, Shaza Fatima Khawaja said around 80 per cent of the bandwidth shortfall caused by...