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8 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This is what is known as a half-truth. Journos should understand bureaucratic nuance. #Churails was taken down by Zee5 on threats by PTA that it would ban the entire website/app in Pak.
Here’s a Reuters story with a little more truth... Image
Link to Reuters story: in.reuters.com/article/pakist…
And #Churails is back on. Zee5’s lawyers probably determined that the moral code / judgment being cited by PTA did not apply to them. But we’ll have to see what the official statement is.

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