I am sometimes interviewed by Pakistani journalists. But when they send me a video link of the video recording, which I want to post on my facebook page and twitter, I find it has been blocked by the Indian authorities, with the words :
” Video unavailable
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Evidently all videos coming from Pakistan to India via whatsapp or otherwise are blocked by the Indian government, consequent to the recent Indo-Pak hostilities.
But there is a way to beat the system, and let me give an illustration.
I was interviewed online from Lahore on the night of 5th June by Dr Hasan Zafar, Assistant Professor at the Department of Media Studies, Art and Design, Lahore School of Economics, who holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from Glasgow University. Dr Zafar also hosts a political talk show on TV ( Federal Post ), and appears as a political commentator in TV shows.
When he sent me a video recording of my interview by whatsapp, I found it was blocked by the Indian authorities, with the above note.
So to outwit the system I devised a method. I sent the blocked whatsapp video to a friend in Bangladesh, who then whatsapped it back to me, and I could then see the interview and post it on fb and twitter. The interview is given below :
Evidently videos coming from countries other than Pakistan are not blocked by the Indian authorities. So a video coming from Bangladesh or any country other than Pakistan can be viewed, and posted on facebook, twitter, etc.
So the simple way to beat the system is to send the blocked video to any friend in America, Europe, Asia ( other than Pakistan ), or Australia, and ask him/her to send it back through whatsapp or any other means. Then it will not be blocked, and can be seen, and posted on the social media
