The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a major firewall renewal and upgrade project to enhance its cybersecurity infrastructure and safeguard critical digital systems from emerging cyber threats.
According to initial estimates, the project’s budget falls in the range of Rs. 40 million to Rs. 120 million, depending on the selected firewall models, subscription durations, and scope of deployment.
Once completed, the upgraded firewall system will provide PTA with enhanced visibility, control, and resilience against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats targeting Pakistan’s telecom and digital networks.
According to project details, the firewall renewal plan involves upgrading the existing network security system at PTA Headquarters and its regional offices. The project includes the procurement and installation of next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), renewal of software licenses, and integration with PTA’s data centers and monitoring units.
New Firewall Features
The technical scope of the project includes the deployment of high-performance firewalls with features such as intrusion prevention systems, web filtering, malware protection, VPN security, and SSL inspection.
These new systems will help prevent unauthorized access, detect intrusion attempts, and strengthen real-time network monitoring across PTA’s nationwide infrastructure.
The upgraded infrastructure will also incorporate centralized management consoles for network control and active-passive failover configurations to ensure uninterrupted service. The PTA plans to integrate the new firewall system with National CERT’s threat intelligence framework for real-time coordination on cyber incidents.
Implementation of the project will take place in multiple phases, including assessment of the existing network setup, procurement and installation of new hardware, configuration and testing, and capacity building of PTA’s IT staff.
The project also includes a post-deployment maintenance phase, ensuring 24/7 vendor support and continuous security updates over the next three to five years.
*Pakistan’s Internet Censorship is Getting a Major Upgrade
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Sept 2024 from your own article
“The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) has clarified that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is not involved in funding, procurement, appointment, or operations of any firewall project at the national level.”
Now in Nov 2025
“The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a major firewall renewal and upgrade project to enhance its cybersecurity infrastructure and safeguard critical digital systems from emerging cyber threats.”
So which 1 is it ?
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Perfect, Dair aye Drust aye, beat wishes to PTA and Enforcement Forces of Cybercrime control. Bht c countries ye sab implementations many year ago ker chuke. Now finally Pakistan got the right track to improve cyber security platforms.
@invincible
Agreed . Benjamin Netayahu is awesome. Best leader of 🇵🇰
I’d say make him our president 4 life.
Propakistani acting like BBC covering u[p crimes.
Security Security Karte Poore Mulk K internet Ki Bend Baj Rahain intelligence Agencies Na PTA PTA Kuch B Nhi In K Agy PTA Toh Sriph Face Yani Pardy K Pechy Wardi Hy.India Mein 2021 Sy 5G Aur Ya Pakistan Mein Jo 4G B Chal Raha Us Ko Bend Baj Kar Hi Chore Gain Lanat in SAB Par 👋 Kabhi Kashmir Mein Kabhi Blochistan Mein Agier Protest Ho Toh Sare Mulk K internet Bend Baj De Jati Hy Aur PTA Keh Ti Hy 🦈 Sharks Ne Fala Fala Cable Kat Li Kiya Mazaq Hy Pakistan Ki Democracy
PTA should file an FIR against those stupid sharks that keep eating our internet cables…
AI Overview
Submarine cables are damaged occasionally, with approximately 150-200 incidents globally each year, primarily due to accidental human activities, followed by natural hazards. Intentional sabotage is extremely rare.
The primary reasons for damage are:
Human Activities (approx. 70-80% of faults)
Fishing Gear: This is the single largest cause of cable damage. Bottom trawling and other types of fishing equipment can hook, drag, and cut cables, especially in shallower continental shelf waters (less than 100 meters deep, though sometimes up to 2000m).
Ship Anchors: Dropped or dragged anchors, particularly from large commercial vessels, are the second-most common cause. This often happens in shallow water near ports or in charted anchorage areas, sometimes due to poor seamanship or equipment failure where anchors are not properly secured for sea.
Dredging and Offshore Construction: Activities related to coastal development, port construction, dredging, and oil/gas development can also inadvertently damage cables.
Natural Hazards (approx. 10% of faults)
Seismic Events: Underwater earthquakes and the resulting submarine landslides (turbidity currents) can affect large areas of the seafloor, potentially damaging multiple cables at once, even in deep water.
Ocean Currents and Weather: Strong currents, typhoons, and storm-generated sediment movement can cause abrasion and fatigue, or expose buried cables to damage.
Volcanic Eruptions: These events can also trigger disruptions, as seen in the 2022 Tonga eruption that severed the island nation’s only cable link.
Other Factors
Equipment Failure and Aging Infrastructure: Internal component failure or general degradation over the cable’s 25-year design life can occur.
Intentional Sabotage: While a growing concern in recent years due to geopolitical tensions, confirmed cases of deliberate, state-sponsored sabotage are historically rare.
Marine Life: Shark or fish bites are a prevalent myth, but improved cable armor has made such incidents extremely uncommon in modern times, accounting for a negligible percentage of faults.
Cable operators use various strategies like burying cables in the seabed in shallow areas and ensuring network redundancy (multiple cable routes) to minimize service disruptions when a break occurs.
Our only get damaged at suspicious times, elections, protests
The major cause for slow internet is the LI server si used to spy on millions of Pakistanis and thier social media activities. This is blatant violation of freedom of speech/choice as per the constitution of Pakistan, but then again where do we see the constitution being implemented properly?
To make matters worse the people who were not voted, are currently sitting in the parliament and changing the constitution as per thier own needs
These firewalls are to suppress internal freedom of speech and public opinion against Martial Law regime occupying Pakistan.
On same connection and infrastructure:
With VPN: Submarine cables ok with Uniformed Sharks sleeping. No delays, lag or other issues.
Without VPN: Submarine cable bitten by Uniformed sharks. Delays, lag, packet drops, DNS filtering.
Didn’t you claim that there is no firewall in your article few months ago ? Lol
This was you in Sept 2024
“The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) has clarified that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is not involved in funding, procurement, appointment, or operations of any firewall project at the national level.”
Now suddenly they accepted it ?
We know we are under trump lackey
Sept 2024 from your own article
“The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) has clarified that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is not involved in funding, procurement, appointment, or operations of any firewall project at the national level.”
Now in Nov 2025
“The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a major firewall renewal and upgrade project to enhance its cybersecurity infrastructure and safeguard critical digital systems from emerging cyber threats.”
So which 1 is it ?
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Security Security Karte Poore Mulk K internet Ki Bend Baj Rahain intelligence Agencies Na PTA PTA Kuch B Nhi In K Agy PTA Toh Sriph Face Yani Pardy K Pechy Wardi Hy.India Mein 2021 Sy 5G Aur Ya Pakistan Mein Jo 4G B Chal Raha Us Ko Bend Baj Kar Hi Chore Gain Lanat in SAB Par Kabhi Kashmir Mein Kabhi Blochistan Mein Agier Protest Ho Toh Sare Mulk K internet Bend Baj De Jati Hy Aur PTA Keh Ti Hy Sharks Ne Fala Fala Cable Kat Li Kiya Mazaq Hy Pakistan Ki Democracy
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Yaar sb se pehle to yeh freedom of speech ka rona band kren, there is nothing like freedom of speech bs ghol ke pila dia gaya hai hamen ke koi freedom of speech naam ki cheez bhi hoti hai, hr cheez ki hamesha ek acceptance side hoti hai ek rejection side hoti hai, so its always ke koi kaam ko sahi kahe ga to koi ghalat kahe ga, ab agar kal ko koi banda apko ya apke kisi beloved family member ko abuse kre to aap usay bhi freedom of speech kahen ge? Koi shakhs social media pe beth ke kuch bhi bole kuch bhi likhe Pakistan ke khilaf to woh bhi freedom of speech kahen ge? Aese nai hota bhai iss freedom of speech ki gaadi se utar jaen ab. Secondly, jb agle 5,10 saal mein yeh sb normal ho jae ga to hamari aane wali generations ko pta b nai hona ka koi firewall lagi thi aur uspe itna rola hua krta tha, either they will accept it or will bypass it somehow. It is normal bhai unless you intend to do something wrong or unlawful. Mujhe sirf iss baat se ferk perrta hai ke internet connectivity mein problem na aye, baki government jo merzi track kr le mera jb main kuch ghalat hi nai kr raha to why should I care?
With a Rs 120 million (12-core) budget, these firewalls will realistically only cover PTA HQ and regional office security. Deploying them at Pakistan’s International Gateway (IGW)? Not even close—IGW requires high-capacity, carrier-grade firewalls, way beyond this setup.
Total rubbish and bulshit firewall installed Pakistan mandate thief army to slow down internet drastically in order to stop criticism on military interference in politics . Utterly shameful duffers ruling Pakistan
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