So someone is investigating pdf for relaxed rules and troll culture? I think it has to be something much more serious than rules on an online board.
even better might be subdomains for each country under defenceforum .com and put everyone out of business.
From what understand Pakistani military basically got the Pakistani forum mods and questioned them or something like that.
The forum stopped being civil after like 2019. For the past 2 years, it’s just been a bunch of arguing about internal Pakistani politics (like 50% of threads). It’s not surprising that it was going to be shutdown once the government caught wind of what was going on
Pakistani forums are always pro-China, have always been. But they are also always very unprofessional, with (the now defunct) pakdef being the only exception.
Lots of pro-US posters in PDF. The reason is because a large fraction of their userbase are overseas Pakistanis and often in Anglo countries. I agree with @ZeEa5KPul that Pakistan's reputation for being pro-China is overrated. Many of its middle-class are very Western-oriented and its political elites are bought off by the West.
I'm not totally aware of current trends but when I was active on Pakistani forums in the 2000s, there was a strong, inherent dislike for the West despite being a US ally with bought out elites. Majority of the folk have deep resentment of the West, not just on the internet but also in public. Personally, it's been rare to encounter a pro-US Pakistani on any forum, though there are numerous fake Indian profiles.
