Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman, Major General Hafeezur Rehman has said that PTA is working on a plan to regulate the use of VPNs in Pakistan by whitelisting some proxy networks and blocking others.
While attending a meeting of the Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat, PTA Chairman said that after the policy is implemented, only whitelisted VPNs would function in Pakistan and the others will be blocked.
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However, in response to a query by the committee’s chairman, the PTA chief, warned that the blockage of VPNs will “lead to the collapse of several IT businesses that operate on VPNs”.
It is pertinent to mention that the use of VPNs by local internet users witnessed a significant increase since the ban of X. But according to PTA chairman the number of X users in Pakistan has decreased by 70 percent and only 30 percent users are accessing X through VPN.
