Pakistan has taken all Indian television channels off its airwaves amid escalating tensions between the two South Asian rivals.
"The Pakistan government has banned showing Indian satellite channels as well as Star channels on cables for their poisonous propaganda against Pakistan," the official APP news agency quoted Major General Shahzada Alam Malik, chairman of the state-owned Telecommunication Authority.
He said some 800 private cable operators in Pakistan would risk unspecifed penalties and cancellation of their licences for defying the ban.
