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No ban on Pakistani channels: Dasmunsi
17 February, 2007
New Delhi: India today said it has not banned Pakistani channels from being telecast in the country but they are not being beamed as they had not registered themselves with authorities here.
"There is nothing of that sort," Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunsi said when asked if Pakistani news and entertainment channels have been banned. "We have one simple rule, that any foreign channel has to register itself in India before being telecast. They did not register at all. We gave them enough time," he told newspersons.
None of the Pakistani channels - state-run PTV, ARY, Geo and QTV - registered themselves with the Information and Broadcasting Ministry, he said. Dasmunsi's clarification came in the wake of a complaint by visiting Pakistani Information Minister Tariq Azim, who said that none of the Indian cable operators was showing any Pakistani channel while Pakistani cable operators showed most of the Indian channels.
Azim said even the hotel where all Pakistani officials and diplomats preferred to stay did not show a single Pakistani channel. He urged India to allow the telecast of Pakistani channels which he felt could be a "learning experience" for Indians about life on the other side of the border.
Courtesy Chennai Online
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hahaha learning from across the borders.. what terrorism , bombing, military rule etc.. i prefer not to learn
Mulla omar, Peru - 20 February, 2007
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Pak channels, especially PTV, spit anti-India venom, I guess that is what passes as entertainment in Pakistan. That is why they're best kept off the air in India. Indian channels are shown in Pakistan for one very simple reason. They show stuff that goes very well with the masses. That will really be the day when Pakistani politicians, oops, army, openly admit that every single household watches Bollywood movies while the government has banned them from theatres. It is because of lack of democracy, not lack of talent, that even after 60 years to Independence, Pakistan has not been able to produce even a half-decent film or Television industry which even their own people will watch, let alone people from other countries. Typical hypocricy.
Indian, Hungary - 22 February, 2007
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