India denies ban on Arabic TV channels

By Haitham Sabbah on 08/10/2006

Some good news for a change: Indian authorities have denied that they have imposed any ban on Arabic-language television channels.

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“This is not true. No specific instruction has been issued by our ministry to ban any Arabic channel. Cable operators and hotels are free to beam them,” a spokesman for the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting told Gulf News yesterday.

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