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By preventing this interview from broadcasting, the Pakistani state has told the whole world that our media is not free.
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The speaker argues that stopping the interview from being broadcast is itself evidence that the media is not free. “The Pakistani state” is presented as responsible for preventing the public from hearing it. The claim also treats this action as a message to people beyond Pakistan: censorship has made the country’s lack of media freedom visible to the world.
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