Pakistani cable station cut off
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Local authorities in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir have ordered most Pakistani cable stations off the air in the territory, cable operators said Thursday.
The popular Pakistani channels are the only source of Islamic programming in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a Muslim-majority area where insurgents have been fighting for almost two decades for independence from predominantly Hindu India or union with mostly Muslim Pakistan, which controls the other part of the Himalayan territory.
Both countries claim all of Kashmir and have fought two wars over it.
Indian cable operators in Kashmir have carried several Pakistani channels including state-run PTV for several years. It was not clear why local officials ordered the cuts now.
India's state government in Kashmir sent cable operators an order Wednesday directing them to stop airing most of the channels because they have not been approved by India's federal Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, said Irfan Ahmed, who runs the main cable operation in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar.
Ahmed said that it was the first time he received a written government order about the Pakistani channels, and that he had complied. Other cable operators also stopped airing channels.
The popular Pakistani channels are the only source of Islamic programming in Indian-controlled Kashmir, a Muslim-majority area where insurgents have been fighting for almost two decades for independence from predominantly Hindu India or union with mostly Muslim Pakistan, which controls the other part of the Himalayan territory.
Both countries claim all of Kashmir and have fought two wars over it.
Indian cable operators in Kashmir have carried several Pakistani channels including state-run PTV for several years. It was not clear why local officials ordered the cuts now.
India's state government in Kashmir sent cable operators an order Wednesday directing them to stop airing most of the channels because they have not been approved by India's federal Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, said Irfan Ahmed, who runs the main cable operation in Indian Kashmir's main city of Srinagar.
Ahmed said that it was the first time he received a written government order about the Pakistani channels, and that he had complied. Other cable operators also stopped airing channels.
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