Facebook will block in Afghanistan

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - Kabul: Najibullah Haqqani, Acting Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology, in an interview with TOLOnews, announced the completion of the ministry's policy to limit or block Facebook in the country.

 

Mr. Haqqani has said that the youth of the country currently need education and should not be engaged in social networks.

 

Acting Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology said: "Our youth and yours are in a situation where they are scientifically weak and the majority of them are illiterate, and they are still wasting their time and spending money with these things for the benefit of the company and to the detriment of the nation. For this reason, a policy has been made to limit and block Facebook.

 

Najibullah Haqqani also stated in a part of this conversation that the telecommunication networks used to pay money to the Islamic Emirate during the rule of the previous regime in the country to ensure the security of their sites. He emphasized that in the previous regime, they had the most sovereignty in the geography of Afghanistan.

 

Acting Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology has added that efforts have been made to prevent cybercrimes in the country and a laboratory is going to be established in this department.

 

Najibullah Haqqani added: "We provided security in those areas and we had provided services to the telecommunication networks. I don't know from which work the previous regime received its products."

 

In this conversation, this caretaker government official also said that they currently have 241 active systems in the three institutions of security and education, and it is planned to create new systems for several other ministries in the near future.

 

He added: "A few months ago, our teams started to survey all the systems of the ministries and collect their specifications, and then we can connect all the systems together."

 

Acting Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology has emphasized in this conversation that no one has the right to violate people's privacy, and if necessary, they only allow security institutions to access their places to prevent anti-security incidents and pursue criminals.

 

The Islamic Emirate is trying to block Facebook in Afghanistan while the "Meta" company, the owner of Facebook, has blocked the accounts of the departments and members of the Islamic Emirate based on the anti-terrorism laws of the United States.