Active Incident
Confirmed: sustained censorship in Pakistan (2026-06)
Pakistan · June 1, 2026 · 13 days
OONI detected 168 days of elevated network interference averaging 100.0% anomaly rate.
Evidence
100%
Anomaly Rate
168
Measurements
85%
Confidence
What This Means
100% of 168 network tests from Pakistan failed to reach these services. Global baseline failure rate is typically 1-3%. This 97+ percentage point difference strongly indicates intentional blocking.
How We Detected This
Data Sourceooni + censoredplanet
ML ModelGradientBoosting v3.3 (LOCO median F1 0.87, honest across 127 countries)
Confidence Score85% certainty of censorship
Detection TimeJune 1, 2026
Corroborating Evidence (171)
Evidence collected from multiple independent sources. Upstream claims shown in quotes are not Voidly assertions.
OONIOpen Observatory of Network Interference168 records
blocking
"OONI signal: 3/3 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Jun 14, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 4/4 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Jun 14, 2026
View source →tor-blocking
"OONI tor: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Jun 14, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI signal: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Jun 14, 2026
View source →blocking
"OONI telegram: 5/5 measurements anomalous (100.0%)"— OONI report
Signal value: 1.00
Jun 14, 2026
View source →+ 163 more OONI records
Censored PlanetUniversity of Michigan research3 records
http-blocking-timeout
"HTTPS blocking (timeout): 8/15 probes blocked (53.3%) for protonvpn.com"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.53
Jun 14, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTPS blocking (timeout): 10/15 probes blocked (66.7%) for signal.org"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.67
Jun 14, 2026
View source →http-blocking-timeout
"HTTPS blocking (timeout): 12/15 probes blocked (80.0%) for telegram.org"— Censored Planet report
Signal value: 0.80
Jun 14, 2026
View source →Affected Services (6)
ClaudeProton VPNProtonVPNSignalTelegramTor
Blocked Domains (4)
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What we cannot say
- Who caused it — measurement data alone does not attribute this to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- Intent — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- Which networks — no specific ASN/ISP is identified for this incident.
- The mechanism — we cannot state whether this was DNS tampering, TLS/SNI reset, an HTTP blockpage, throttling, or an infrastructure outage.
- Sub-national scope — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
Cite This Incident
Voidly Research. (2026). Confirmed: sustained censorship in Pakistan (2026-06) [PK-2026-0443]. Voidly Global Censorship Index. https://voidly.ai/incident/PK-2026-0443
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