The government of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province says internet connectivity is a priority. Frustrated students would beg to differ
weekly meeting with his academic supervisor has become rather fraught. The 28-year-old postgraduate is researching Pakistan’s energy policy at one of the country’s most prestigious universities. But the internet at his home in Kurram, a district on the border with Afghanistan, keeps letting him down. Mr Hussain’s cable connection is an expensive luxury in a region where many people go without internet of any kind. Yet using it for video-calling is a struggle.
Internet provision in Kurram and neighbouring districts is especially bad. The border region was run at arm’s length by British colonial administrators, who viewed it as a rugged buffer against Afghanistan and saw little reason to develop it. These districts remained a backwater after independence, when they became known as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
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