Pakistan’s Supreme Court has re-imposed a ban on all Indian TV channels, overturning an earlier order from a lower court.<\/p>\n
Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said the ban was justified as India was damming rivers that flow into Pakistan.<\/p>\n
Pakistan says the dams are being used against it as a weapon, a claim India denies.<\/p>\n
Indian television and films are popular in Pakistan, but the country has banned them before in response to tensions.<\/p>\n
“India is shrinking the flow of water into Pakistan,” Mr Nisar reportedly said, as he overturned an earlier verdict by the Lahore High Court. “Why shouldn’t we close their channels?”<\/p>\n
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
Pakistan first imposed\u00a0a ban on Indian films following the Indo-Pakistan war of 1965<\/a>.<\/p>\n The ban was eventually lifted in 2008, but has been sporadically reintroduced.<\/p>\n After India cracked down on protests in the disputed region of Kashmir in 2016,\u00a0Pakistan banned all TV and radio from its neighbour<\/a>.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"