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NEW DELHI: After banning news and current affairs programmes on local cable TV channels, authorities here on Wednesday directed cable operators in Kashmir Valley to take off air all unregistered channels including those from Pakistan.
The order to implement the directive strictly comes close on the heels of the government banning Iran-based private news channel Press TV after it aired a report about alleged desecration of a holy book in the United States, that led to violent protests leaving 18 dead.
The District Administration said it was only going by the law of the land and the orders of taking off the channels was passed in 2008.
"The order of banning all unregistered channels has been passed in 2008. We have only implemented it," District Magistrate Srinagar Meraj Ahmad Kakroo said.
A representative of the Cable Operators Association said they received directions from the state administration asking them to take off air Pakistani news and entertainment channels.
Read more: India bans Pak channels in Kashmir - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...Kashmir/articleshow/6560286.cms#ixzz0zbZMynzr
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-bans-Pak-channels-in-Kashmir/articleshow/6560286.cms
The order to implement the directive strictly comes close on the heels of the government banning Iran-based private news channel Press TV after it aired a report about alleged desecration of a holy book in the United States, that led to violent protests leaving 18 dead.
The District Administration said it was only going by the law of the land and the orders of taking off the channels was passed in 2008.
"The order of banning all unregistered channels has been passed in 2008. We have only implemented it," District Magistrate Srinagar Meraj Ahmad Kakroo said.
A representative of the Cable Operators Association said they received directions from the state administration asking them to take off air Pakistani news and entertainment channels.
Read more: India bans Pak channels in Kashmir - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...Kashmir/articleshow/6560286.cms#ixzz0zbZMynzr
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-bans-Pak-channels-in-Kashmir/articleshow/6560286.cms