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“Pani Dedo”: How Pakistanis Turned a Geopolitical Crisis into Meme Warfare

  • May 01, 2025

Twenty-six people died. Civilians. Tourists. Possibly women, children, families. Innocents. Their stories never reached us. Not because of censorship, but because no one cared enough to look for them. In Pakistan, people were too busy winning the meme war to ask who the victims were—or what their lives meant. 

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