How students in a remote part of Pakistan mobilized during the pandemic to demand better internet from the military-run unit controlling it (Alizeh Kohari/Rest of World)

Alizeh Kohari / Rest of World:
How students in a remote part of Pakistan mobilized during the pandemic to demand better internet from the military-run unit controlling it  —  Pakistan's government uses the internet as a means of exerting control — and in a remote part of the country, citizens are starting to fight back.



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