X, erstwhile Twitter, was back up in Pakistan on Tuesday after almost nine monthsof outage in the country. Access to tech billionaire-run platforms has been disrupted in many areas of the country since February 17.

The development came at a time when the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf supporters reached Islamabad’s D-Chowk for former prime minister Imran Khan’s release.

Live footage showed hundreds of protesters marching to the federal capital, along with the main convoy led by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi.

Aaj News staff members were able to access the social media platform on their smartphones while many had trouble accessing its browser version.

Services of social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, were disrupted a week after the February 8 general elections which saw independent candidates backed by the PTI win majority seats. But the PML-N with coalition partners formed the government.

“We continue to work with the Pakistani Government to understand their concerns,” X’s Global Government Affairs said in a post on April 18, 2024.

When asked, ministers had maintained that it was banned in the caretaker setup.

“Islamabad:—X/formerly Twitter services currently working in Pakistan after months of ban,” the South Asia Index said in a post on X.

Many users on social media confirmed that they were using X without a VPN, but some claimed that access to Instagram was restricted.

“.Following the protests Twitter X has got freedom. Now we are using it without vpn,” journalist Azaz Syed said.