India Bans Al Jazeera for Five Days Following Kashmir Map Row - Hollywood Reporter
The Indian government has ordered that 24-hour news channel Al Jazeera go off air for five days starting Wednesday for showing an incorrect map of Kashmir.
“The ban has been imposed for five days and it was done on instructions of an inter-ministerial committee, who took cognizance of an incorrect map of India in which the channel showed parts of Kashmir in Pakistan and China,” news reports quoted a government official telling AFP on condition of anonymity.
The Qatar-headquartered channel said in a statement that the government’s decision concerns maps shown in 2013 and 2014 which didn’t mark Pakistan-controlled Kashmir as a separate territory. Maps used and authorized by the Indian government show this part—as well as territory controlled by China—as falling within India.
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