Beyond viewership |
PAKISTAN has an enormous appetite for online content. According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, it leads the world in daily YouTube viewership, with 96m users watching 560m videos a day. TikTok and WhatsApp command similarly vast audiences. And yet millions of Pakistanis struggle with slow connections, patchy mobile coverage, and unreliable service. A video may load eventually, but a student attending a virtual class or a small business processing a payment cannot afford interruptions. The government should, therefore, measure digital progress by whether people can depend on the internet to learn,........