Pakistan Loses Internet, Chaos Ensues; While Pakistan must wait several days for its primary link to the Internet to be restored, commercial activities, particularly banking, are "a big disaster" without connections to the Web.

InformationWeek, June, 2005

While Pakistan must wait several days for its primary link to the Internet to be restored, commercial activities, particularly banking, are "a big disaster" without connections to the Web, according to news reports from the region. On Monday, the undersea fiber optic cable that connects Pakistan to the rest of the world was damaged -- reasons yet unknown -- and the country's 10 million Internet users were without access to servers outside their borders.

The damaged cable was 21 miles out to sea, off Pakistan's main port, Karachi. This is the second time in ...