{"id":18084,"date":"2018-10-27T21:53:43","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T21:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/pakistan-bans-indian-television-channels-amid-water-row\/43"},"modified":"2018-10-27T21:53:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T21:53:43","slug":"pakistan-bans-indian-television-channels-amid-water-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=18084","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan bans Indian television channels amid water row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Supreme Court of Pakistan\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pakistan-bans-indian-television-channels-amid-water-row-5bd4de673018c.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/> Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption The Supreme Court overturned an earlier ruling lifting the ban <\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court has re-imposed a ban on all Indian TV channels, overturning an earlier order from a lower court.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said the ban was justified as India was damming rivers that flow into Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan says the dams are being used against it as a weapon, a claim India denies. <\/p>\n<p>Indian television and films are popular in Pakistan, but the country has banned them before in response to tensions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;India is shrinking the flow of water into Pakistan,&#8221; Mr Nisar reportedly said, as he overturned an earlier verdict by the Lahore High Court. &#8220;Why shouldn&#8217;t we close their channels?&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"bbccom_mpu_1_2_3\" aria-hidden=\"true\">  <\/div>\n<p>More than 80% of irrigated agricultural land in Pakistan depends on the river Indus and its tributaries, most of which flow from the Himalayas. <\/p>\n<p> Are India and Pakistan set for water wars? Meet India&#8217;s dam-building grandmother <\/p>\n<p>Pakistan first imposed a ban on Indian films following the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965. <\/p>\n<p>The ban was eventually lifted in 2008, but has been sporadically reintroduced.<\/p>\n<p>After India cracked down on protests in the disputed region of Kashmir in 2016, Pakistan banned all TV and radio from its neighbour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP\/Getty Image caption The Supreme Court overturned an earlier ruling lifting the ban Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court has re-imposed a ban on all Indian TV channels, overturning an earlier order from a lower court. Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said the ban was justified as India was damming rivers that flow into Pakistan. Pakistan says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18082,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8227],"class_list":["post-18084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-pakistan-bans-indian-television-channels-amid-water-row-bbc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}