YouTube releases list of Pakistan's most watched videos

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YouTube releases list of Pakistan's most watched videos

Dawn.com Published December 8, 2016

YouTube Pakistan on Thursday released a list of the most watched videos and music videos in Pakistan for the current year with Commander Safeguard taking the top spot, said a press statement from the world's most popular online video community.

The videos have been selected based on the time spent watching, sharing, commenting and liking by users, added the press release.

The top music video was Coke Studio's rendition of Afreen Afreen, performed by Momina Mustehsan and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan.

Also featured on the Top 10 video list was the movie Jawani Phir Nahi Aani, Champion by DJ Bravo and Taher Shah's Angel.

Top 10 videos (excluding major label music videos)

YouTube is the world's most popular online video community allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally created videos.

YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, inform and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small. YouTube is based in San Bruno, California, and is a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Azhar

Dec 08, 2016 09:42pm

Afreen Afreen is not even in the top ten list.

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Secular Pathan

Dec 08, 2016 09:49pm

Shows how decadent we are, backwards and lame, wasting time and productivity!

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Taiful

Dec 08, 2016 09:54pm

Alif aslams coke studio qawali has over 50 million viewers

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salloo

Dec 08, 2016 09:57pm

10. Angel - Taher Shah. Oh dear God.

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S. A. M.

Dec 08, 2016 10:15pm

my fav is angele

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M.Saeed

Dec 08, 2016 10:28pm

Good return to business after many years of proscription!

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saber

Dec 08, 2016 10:45pm

I thought something else..but good to see...

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kissk

Dec 08, 2016 10:52pm

I watched Taher Shah 'Angel' somany times

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Khawar Alam

Dec 08, 2016 11:01pm

Angel should be on the top, jealous youtube

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Zul Haider

Dec 08, 2016 11:10pm

They probably thought it inappropriate to make public the real list. If you saw the top trending videos list in youtube pakistan a few months back you would have seen what sort of filth our nation enjoys.

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usman

Dec 08, 2016 11:29pm

Tahir Shah is in the top 10 - what a proud feeling for him :D

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Nitin

Dec 08, 2016 11:42pm

In India Kapil Sharma top most watching videos

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Naila

Dec 09, 2016 12:33am

The best thing is every watched stuff belong to pakistan!

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Murtaza

Dec 09, 2016 12:41am

Angel # 10 - facepalm

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Javed

Dec 09, 2016 01:04am

Respectfully... this is not the time.

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saber

Dec 09, 2016 01:40am

Thank god ..its was not , what i was thinking

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Atsul

Dec 09, 2016 03:26am

Nice Angel made the cut, that's what count these days. Taher Shah keep it up.

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Pindi boy

Dec 09, 2016 04:07am

Good to see Tahir Shah still in the list.

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Crime Master GOGO

Dec 09, 2016 04:35am

Taher Shah made it to top 10..... yay!!!

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Kashif Iqbal

Dec 09, 2016 04:46am

Rooting for Angel!!!

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Citizen Pak

Dec 09, 2016 08:03am

My Favourite was our 90k soldiers surrenderring to India on 16Dec1971

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saira

Dec 09, 2016 08:33am

Mankind's......angel....

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fahd

Dec 10, 2016 12:24pm

also release how much advertising these brands did on youtube and GDN to get those visitors on their videos? not a single original content .. all promoted by brands. it doesn't qualify. lets talk about organic traffic here youtubees.

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Asif

Dec 10, 2016 06:22pm

U r the most reliable friend as u help us in knowledge and discovery.......thank u very much utube......

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Traveller

Dec 11, 2016 02:26am

No educational videos ?0

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huma begum

Dec 11, 2016 11:27am

YouTube is the beautiful thing invented for the public. We in Pakistan should make the best use of it and make the country, our culture, our religion more open and vibrant - bringing forth our best and not so best points in order to further enhance and improve and march forward in tune with rest of the world and other cultures and faiths. It is the best means to make use of awareness and enhancing the plights of the depressed status of our women in our faith and culture and overcome the inhumanly depressed status of our downtrodden masses in our society. Among the best Pakistani YouTubes is - IQRAR outlining some of the weaknesses in our culture needing to improve. Saddened to see that it is not among the top.

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huma begum

Dec 11, 2016 11:37am

@Zul Haider That is what YouTube is meant for - first is to become aware and know the bad - filth in our society or culture, only then you can put efforts and means to make improvements and move forward rather than remaining stagnant.

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Shazad

Dec 11, 2016 02:10pm

@Taiful I think there is a difference between the number of viewers and how many times a videos actually has been viewed. I can watch something 10 times but still count as 1 viewer. YouTube counts views not viewers.

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