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Zardari asks inattentive audience to shut up

Islamabad: Pakistanis are fretting over the blocking of YouTube for some hours by authorities to prevent people from seeing a video in which President Asif Ali Zardari told an unruly section of a gathering to shut up. The video clip that has been cross-posted at several websites shows Zardari saying shut up to members of the audience while delivering a speech at a recent rally. The blocking of YouTube by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority figured prominently on Twitter and several new versions of the shut up video have surfaced. One remixed clip has Zardari talking to the audience with a dialogue by Amitabh Bachchan playing in the backdrop,followed by the Black Eyed Peass song Shut Up.