# Censorship detected in PK

**Country:** 🇵🇰 Pakistan (PK)
**Date:** 2026-09-02
**Type:** Censorship
**Severity:** CRITICAL
**Status:** suspected

## Summary

None

## Metrics

- Confidence: 90%
- Measurements (stored incident count; not the qualifying evidence count): 12
- Anomaly Rate: 100.0%

## Evidence

- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 10/10 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 10/10 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 8/8 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 7/8 measurements anomalous (87.5%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 8/8 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 6/6 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 10/10 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 10/10 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 9/9 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI signal: 13/15 measurements anomalous (86.7%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 85%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=signal&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI telegram: 15/15 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=telegram&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **OONI** (measurement): OONI tor: 14/14 measurements anomalous (100.0%)
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [OONI Explorer filtered results (not one measurement)](https://explorer.ooni.org/search?probe_cc=PK&test_name=tor&since=2026-09-02&until=2026-09-03&only=anomalies)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for bbc.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for getlantern.org
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for huggingface.co
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for nytimes.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for openai.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for psiphon.ca
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for signal.org
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for substack.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 4/4 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tiktok.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 3/3 probes anomalous (100.0%) for tumblr.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (dns-probe): DNS blocking detected: 2/2 probes anomalous (100.0%) for twitter.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 90%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (timeout): 9/15 probes blocked (60.0%) for protonvpn.com
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 83%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)
- **CENSOREDPLANET** (http-probe): HTTPS blocking (tcp-reset): 12/15 probes blocked (80.0%) for telegram.org
  - Observed: 2026-09-02
  - Confidence: 89%
  - [Censored Planet data portal (not one measurement)](https://data.censoredplanet.org)

## What we cannot say

- **Who caused it** — measurement data alone does not attribute the interference to any government, ISP, or other actor.
- **Intent** — anomalous or unreachable measurements indicate interference, not a stated motive or a deliberate-vs-incidental determination.
- **Sub-national scope** — measurement is aggregated at the country level; we cannot localize to a province, city, or network segment.
- **Independent corroboration** — multiple qualifying evidence source labels do not establish target/time agreement or source independence.

## Data Sources

censoredplanet, ooni

These source labels come from qualifying linked evidence. Historical incident source labels and quarantined observations are excluded; multiple labels alone do not establish independent corroboration.

## Citation

Voidly Research. (2026). Censorship detected in PK [PK-2026-1725]. Retrieved from https://voidly.ai/incident/PK-2026-1725

---
*Report generated by Voidly Research on 2026-10-10*
*Data licensed under CC BY 4.0*
*Incident ID: PK-2026-1725*
*Permalink: https://voidly.ai/incident/PK-2026-1725*