India Bans Arab TV Channels Under Pressure From Israel Shahid Raza Burney, Arab NewsBOMBAY, 6 August 2006 — In a country widely referred to as the world’s largest democracy, the Indian government has succumbed to mounting Israeli pressure and ordered a nationwide ban on the broadcast of Arab television channels.
The Indian government’s ban on Arab television stations is in complete contrast to the friendship that Arab countries imagine exists with their neighbor across the Arabian Sea. It seems the ban is a move to ensure that Indians do not get to see the atrocities that are presently being committed by Israel in Lebanon and the occupied territories…
Re: Hindustan bans Arab TV Channels under pressure from Israel
Yes. I used to get a Saudi Arabian news channel 4 years ago. IndiaTV airs programme that shows dubbed news from Al-Jazeera. Pakistan’s PTV was clearly recieved in Bhopal when I went there once. I dont know whether its still there.
QTV is already making waves here. Actaully there was nothing about India’s ban on Arab news channels. This news is probably fake.
Re: Hindustan bans Arab TV Channels under pressure from Israel
It is totally a fake news. We do no have any of Israeli channel either. Though Al-Jazeera news shown regularly.
The authenticity of this news is based on an SMS. Thas all.
'A perplexed Al-Bassam then sent an SMS to Arab News Editor in Chief Khaled Almaeena to verify whether this was indeed the case. “Oberoi Hotel tells me that the government of India has banned all Arab TV channels. Why? I hate watching CNN and BBC,” she wrote to Almaeena.'
The thread opener must read the news first before making it an issue.
