<story><title>YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbirer</author><text>The damage control by the Pakistani army is pretty crazy right now. Pakistan is on the verge of devolving into mass riots as Imran Khan has a massive fanbase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>walrus01</author><text>For those people who haven&amp;#x27;t studied Pakistan extensively, the army has &lt;i&gt;always&lt;/i&gt; run things, the politicians are just the thin veneer of pretense at democracy as a public face.&lt;p&gt;The Army and the military forces in general are the people who really control the country.&lt;p&gt;Pakistan makes a public show of having a parliamentary democracy with elected MPs and such but it&amp;#x27;s all a farce.&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t particularly matter whether Bhutto, Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Imran Khan or anyone else.</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube disrupted in Pakistan as former PM Khan streams speech</title><url>https://netblocks.org/reports/youtube-disrupted-in-pakistan-as-former-pm-khan-streams-speech-XADMq6Bg</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jbirer</author><text>The damage control by the Pakistani army is pretty crazy right now. Pakistan is on the verge of devolving into mass riots as Imran Khan has a massive fanbase.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chamanbuga</author><text>It certainly looks like this from the outside. The establishment has always kept control over Pakistan even when such social change was in the air. I expect the same to happen. Also I&amp;#x27;m expecting IK to start dialling it back given the recent riots.</text></comment>