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A new order issued to ISPs from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) directs them to block all encrypted traffic on their networks. A PTA spokesperson told local media the reasoning was to prevent militants from using VPN traffic to coordinate themselves.

Millions of internet users in Pakistan will be unable to send emails and messages without fear of government snooping after authorities banned the use of encryption software.

Last week, the Government of Pakistan informed all Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that they must discontinue all virtual private network (VPN) services within the nation.

We are, however, a little more interested in exactly what the VPN ban does, how it impacts the "legit" businesses and what, if there were some smarter ways to have a "crackdown" since a blanket ban really is so 1990s.