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Political Satire and ‘Brazen Censorship’: Cartooning, Pakistan-US-India Political Ties and Government Backlash
Abstract
Popular discourses assume that in the world of political cartooning, nothing is too sensitive and too outrageous; they can intimidate and instigate the powerful stakeholder of a country. Political cartoonists have capacity to criticize and comment on serious political matters and raise voices of general public but it is only possible if their political system provide freedom to them to play with their pens and brushes. This study primarily aims at drawing the attention to the point that how the dynamics of free speech and freedom to political cartooning in Pakistan have been changed with the same patterns of depiction of the United States-Pakistan-India relationships in different political eras and state foreign policies of the county. Therefore, political cartoons from three highest circulated newspapers (The News, Dawn and Nation) were selected from post-Cold war (January 1991) to October 2019. Political cartoons only related to Pakistan-United States-India political ties were analyzed under the Barthes’ model for Semiotic.
Authors
Dr. Ayesha Ashfaq
Assistant Professor, Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Savera Shami
Assistant Professor, Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Shazia Ismail Toor
Lecturer, Institute of Communication Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Keywords
Brazen Censorship, Government Backlash, Political Satire, Political Ties
