Indian viewers turn to VPNs for their fix of Pakistani drama

Fans of hugely popular serials use tech to skirt ban amid geopolitical tensions

20250918 India VPN watch Pakistani drama

A woman in India-administered Kashmir watches a Pakistani drama on YouTube. Indians have been looking to virtual private networks to get around government restrictions on content from Pakistan. (Photo by Quratulain Rehbar)

QURATULAIN REHBAR

NEW DELHI -- In a small apartment in New Delhi, 31-year-old Inaya Khan settles onto the sofa beside her mother after rounding off the day's chores. Dinner is done, the household is finally calm, and -- in what's become a daily ritual -- they escape into a TV drama not produced locally or in the glitz of Hollywood, but across the border in Pakistan.

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