There will be no more ``Desperate Housewives'' for residents of Indian Kashmir. They will have to do without ``Friends'' reruns, too. Four foreign television channels have been pulled from the air in Indian-controlled Kashmir after Islamic militant groups demanded cable companies stop airing ``obscene'' shows, cable operators said Wednesday.
``As militants have asked us to stop airing obscene channels, we've suspended broadcasting English channels like HBO, Star Movies, Star World and Sony Pix,'' said Muzaffar Ahmed, a TV cable operator in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state.
On Sunday, two militant groups in a telephone call to a local news agency, Current News Service, advised TV cable operators to drop channels that the groups say spread obscenity.
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
What! Militants behaving like governments
AXN is back in rest of the country. But look what's happening in Kashmir. Guardian/AP reports:
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