Sources inform me that the above at its Vimeo location — http://vimeo.com/64414932 — by Pakistan’s popular Baygairat Brigade has been sketchily suppressed through ISP system in Pakistan. Queried for cause, one corresponded responded cryptically (txtng language expanded): “Private disagreement and is not banned by government. Banned by military privately.”
Authoritatively true / not true?
With the link distributed to viewers in-country, one responded earlier today, “Blocked on PTCL” — and another, “Not blocked on Nayatel.”
As second language teachers know, humor, especially satire, may be the most difficult frontier for comprehending: one has to know the culture and its history to “get the joke”. However, with Pakistan’s records of disappeared persons, military coup, internal meddling to control elections, one may take the hints and research them.
Or just enjoy their showing up in the culture’s (and the world’s) media mirror with such universal notes as, “When a free car is the gift / An analyst’s tone shifts.”
Everyone understands that.
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