KABUL: Access to several social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, has been “intentionally restricted” in Afghanistan, an Internet watchdog said Wednesday, a week after a 48-hour telecommunications blackout in the country. Social media sites have been intermittently accessible on smartphones in provinces across the country since Tuesday, AFP journalists reported, while Internet speed is significantly slower than normal.

It comes just over a week after a two-day total internet shutdown across the country ended.

KABUL: Access to several social media sites, including Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, has been “intentionally restricted” in Afghanistan, an Internet watchdog said Wednesday, a…