Facebook and Messenger have gone down in Pakistan, with many users having trouble using these services. This is happening as the government increases security for the 10th of Muharram to prevent any problems.
Instagram and WhatsApp are not down and still working, but they might stop working too. However, there are users reporting problems with images and videos loading on WhatsApp.
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The government or the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has not said anything about Facebook and Messenger being blocked in Pakistan.
It is pertinent to mention that there are no reports of a global outage for Facebook and Messenger, which means that services are probably down in Pakistan only.
Earlier, there was a plan to shut down all social media in Punjab from 6th to 11th Muharram for security reasons, but the plan was not approved.