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Ever got Disney Pakistan on TV?
I’m taking about a decade ago, probably around 2015-16. We had SitiTV set top box and as a child I used to watch Disney Channel which used to come on Channel #404 The Telugu versions of cartoons were not yet widespread in those days so used to watch in Hindi. From one fine day I started getting some different cartoons which I had never seen before, but the staples like Doraemon continued to air so I didn’t care much. I still understood what they were speaking in all the cartoons so it was fine. But one day during commercials, there was an ad for Dettol, and in it the actors all stood in such a way to make a map of Pakistan and they were singing about how a clean Pakistan is a healthy and better Pakistan. That was when I realised I was watching Disney Pakistan and the programming was in Urdu, which was why I could understand most of it anyway because it is almost identical to Hindi. After a few weeks the Indian version came back so it was back to normal, but I always kept wondering how it happened, because the set top box operator was a local Hyderabadi company, how did I ever get to see that version? And did anyone else experience the same?3
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