Why Vidya Balan's Begum Jaan has been banned in Pakistan

Begum Jaan team was told that Pakistan had a policy to not import any movies on Partition

A leading Pakistani politician once explained to me, “Pakistan is a security state. Until we change that, we will always act from a place of vulnerability.” A couple of years later, while I was interviewing a colonel in Lahore, he echoed this line of thought. He told me that all the wars we had fought – whether in 1947, 1965 or 1971 – were fought to protect the country from its enemies. “Pakistan is, after all, a defensive state and we have always acted to defend ourselves,” he reasoned.

A lot can be justified in the name of security and