(Daily Point) — Social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, remained inaccessible across Pakistan on Sunday due to an outage that began on Saturday night amid allegations of electoral fraud.

Users experienced slow or non-existent access to the platform as confirmed by Netblocks, an independent observer, which reported ‘national-scale’ disruption to X.

“A new national-scale disruption to X/Twitter in #Pakistan has been observed amid escalating unrest and protests over allegations of election fraud,” a post on X stated.

On Saturday, Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chatta surrendered to police after claiming that he instructed returning officers under him to alter results for at least 13 MNA candidates.

However, he failed to provide any evidence to support his claims or identify who benefited from these irregularities.

Chatta also accused the Election Commission of Pakistan and Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa of involvement in the alleged ‘rigging,’ claims that were denied by both the ECP and the CJP.

These accusations were made during a press conference in Rawalpindi amidst protests by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf against the alleged election rigging.

Earlier, on January 20, social media platforms experienced a similar outage in Pakistan during a second online power show by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Netblocks confirmed ‘national-scale’ disruption to platforms including YouTube, Instagram, X, and Facebook.

Subsequently, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) attributed the internet disruption to a technical fault.