Starting shortly before 2025-08-19t17:05Z (10:05pm August 19 local time in Pakistan), a very large Internet outage occurred across all of Pakistan. Although not affecting all networks, in many areas 50% or more fo the networks are down, as shown in the following map:
We saw the first outages at 16:30Z, and they quickly ramped up to about half of the networks in most of the country. Since the network outages closely follow the country’s borders, it seems unlikely that this is a weather-related event. As of the time of this post (t20:00Z), the outage appears to be ongoing. We’ll post an update here when we learn more.
Some reports are suggesting it’s a backbone outage caused due to flooding.
These outage were detected using Trinocular, our Internet outage detection system and the large change resulted in an alert.
Update 2025-08-20t00:20Z: It looks like Pakistan’s Internet began recovering around 20:45Z, and is basically back to normal by 2025-08-19t22:30Z (3am local time in Pakistan).
Here’s an “after” picture at 22:24Z:
