While PTV is losing popularity in Pakistan because of the cable onslaught, in Indian Kashmir people have no choice but to choose between PTV, BBC or National Geographic.
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SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen wounded three people in a ladies" beauty salon in Indian Kashmir Friday, 24 hours after a Pakistan based militant group reportedly warned women they would be shot if they did not wear veils in public. Police and witnesses said the Islamic militants stormed into the beauty parlor in the busy Gonikhan market place in Srinagar and fired indiscriminately on the occupants. Two women and the male owner of the salon were wounded, a police spokesman said. The women received thigh wounds and the salon owner was shot in the abdomen. None of them were in danger from their wounds. No group claimed responsibility for the unusual incident in Jammu and Kashmir state, which has been rocked by separatist insurgency for more than a decade.
The shooting came on the heels of a PTI/Yahoo report that the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba had warned women in Kashmir that they would be shot in the legs if they did not wear a veil while out in the streets. The report said the group"s command council also warned cable television operators in the Kashmir valley to stop relaying all channels except the BBC, Pakistan Television (PTV) and National Geographic.