Indian TV Channels Banned in Pakistan

[T-Faz]

In the 90's, Pakistan only had a couple of TV channels. PTV and STN were the main TV channels watched by the masses in Pakistan. Dish antenna brought in International channels and with it came the couple of Indian channels, Doordarshan, Zee and later Dubai based Sony. In those days the programmes were of much higher quality on Indian channels.

But today it is a different as they all produce similar programmes. There has been a massive boom in channels available in Pak. Now you have multiple channels providing good programming and that is why Indian channels are not in so much demand as they used to be.

Here is an incomplete list of Pakistani TV channels.

List of television stations in Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[XYON]

GOOD RIDDANCE to Crap TV! Simply cannot stand those over-rated, over-stated, mother-of-all-bollywood type, 1-minute-story-1-hour-dhuz-dhuz-bakwaas Indian soaps!! Hope it stays that way!!

 

[EjazR]

Al jazeera!!

Coz most of pakistanis like to believe and are made to believe by Sir Zaid Zaman etc that they are somehow Arabs by their origin and racially different(superior) than us :

Aljazeera english along with BBC CNN and the Chinese CCTV are on the blocked list. So its not just Indian channels.

 

[Coltsfan]

PTV 1
PTV World
PTV Global - For USA
PTV National - Regional Programming Channel
PTV Bolan - Balochi Language Channel
AJK TV - Kashmiri Language Channel
Virtual Television 1
Virtual Television 2
Virtual Television 3
Virtual Television 4
AAJ TV
The Musik
ATV - Also available on Terrestrial Networks
Business Plus
Din News
Dhoom TV
Eye Television Network
Hum TV
Masala TV - Food and Health channel
Filmazia - Pakistani Movies Channel
Haq TV - Islamic Channel
Indus Television Network
Indus Plus
Channel G - Music & Lifestyle
Labbaik TV - Islamic Channel
Metro One - Cable channel available only in Karachi
nVibe
Play - Music & Lifestyle channel
Roshni TV (Currently Offair)
Royal TV
Rung TV
Style Duniya - Fashion & Lifestyle Channel available only on cable networks
Sun Entertainment
TV 2 Day
TV One
Ujala TV - Educational Channel
Sindhi
KTN
Sindh TV
Kashish TV
Punjabi
Apna Channel
Punjab TV
Pashto
AVT Khyber
Siraiki
Kook TV
Waseb TV
PTV Panjnad - Punjabi language channel
PTV Mehran - Sindhi language channel
PTV Abaseen - Pashto language channel
Music One - Part of TV One
Al Jazeera Urdu - Part of the ARY Digital Network
Azad TV
Express TV - by Express Media Network
Waqt TV - by Nawawaqt Group of Publications.
Dawn News - English language news channel by Dawn Group of Newspapers.
Rohi TV - Siraiki Language channel
Rung Music - Part of Rung Television Network
Ajrak TV - Sindhi Language Channel
Prime TV Pakistan - by Classic Entertainment (Pvt) Ltd.
PTV Global -
STN/Channel 3
ARY Digital India
Mashriq TV
Fortune TV
Ravi TV
UNI Plus
The City Channel

Bhai you are taking me seriously on a friday evening

Actually, I am enjoying listening to nazia hassan right now....... she was awesome.........

Mods, feel free to ban me for another 4 days for digressing

 

[Al-zakir]

Very good news. Little late but good move. Now I only pray that Bangladesh adopt the same policy. This Bharati channels and Bollywood movie are handicapping the nation.

 

[Spring Onion]

Life has become so easy without those sounds. And i mean it.

Now its easy to watch some good English thematic and action, science fiction movies

 

[Durrak]

not properly in some areas cable operators are not following the order of supreme court

 

[Spring Onion]

We need the Taliban moral police to straighten these infidels who are clamoring for Hindoo entertainment

So all those Hindoo from India who are opposing these Indian pathetic channels have been straightened by Taliban to term Indian craptainment as shyt ??????

---------- Post added at 02:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:08 PM ----------

not properly in some areas cable operators are not following the order of supreme court

Oh is it? Can you please mention the areas

 

[Tiger Awan]

Oh is it? Can you please mention the areas

Akora Khatak. My cousin lives there. His wife is still watching indian channels. Can you plz help him.

Akora Khattak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Neither Right Nor Wrong]

NO SHOW

Outrage in Pakistan as court blacks out Indian channels

Omer Farooq Khan | TNN

Islamabad: In move that blocks the information highway across Pakistan and comes as a rude shock to the people, Pakistan’s supreme court on Friday directed the electronic media regulatory authority to stop all cable operators from airing TV channels without landing rights in Pakistan. The stations off air as a result are predominantly Indian news, entertainment and sports channels, as also a clutch of other foreign and local entertainment, sports and religious networks.

The question of landing rights arose after Pakistan’s Geo and ARY news channels lodged a petition in the apex court because local cable operators were forced to switch off their transmission for broadcasting news of a shoe hurled at President Asif Ali Zardari during his visit to the UK earlier this month.

The channels no longer on view are Times Now, BBC, CNN, Sony, Euro News, Star Plus, CCTV 9, IQRA, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera (English) apart from a host of others. As a result of the ban, sports lovers were unable to watch the first day of the Test match between Pakistan and England at Lords on Star Sports. The Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhary observed that Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) must act against all private TV channels running transmissions without paying broadcasting license fee. The court also issued notice to PEMRA chairman Mushtaq Malik for presenting false statements in the court about the illegal closure of private TV channels. Later, PEMRA chairman Mushtaq, affirming that their decision was taken at the behest of the Supreme Court, said, ‘‘Cable operators have been directed to stop broadcasting all channels that do not have landing rights in Pakistan.

Many callers are furious and are not ready to listen to our explanation,’’ said Muhammad Sadiq of Pakistan Cable Operator’s Association.

Abdul Jabbar, PEMRA’s executive member, said they are not targeting Indian channels but banning all unregistered channels. He also said, ‘‘There’s outrage against blackout of Indian channels because they are very popular here.’’

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[karan.1970]

Life has become so easy without those sounds. And i mean it.

Now its easy to watch some good English thematic and action, science fiction movies

I dont mind Indian channels being banned in Pakistan, but on a different note.. There is a power switch and a channel chante switch on every TV you know..

 

[Spring Onion]

I dont mind Indian channels being banned in Pakistan, but on a different note.. There is a power switch and a channel chante switch on every TV you know..

Oh yar here cable operators show the crap on almost every number on remote control you press.

Now some sane ladies like me do NOT want to watch these trash dhuz dhaz dang dong tringg sounds of indian dramas.

anyway BBC, CNN CCTV are not Indian channels so people should not get paranoid.


BTW India can promote another point that Pakistan banned CCTV bwahahahahahaha

this might create big rift between Pakistan and China and benefit India

 

[SpArK]

Oh yar here cable operators show the crap on almost every number on remote control you press.

Now some sane ladies like me do NOT want to watch these trash dhuz dhaz dang dong tringg sounds of indian dramas.

bwahahahahahaha

Considering the popularity of the channels .. i should say insane are of majority.

On both sides though.

 

[MilesTogo]

One of the current programs on star plus that I like is Chote Ustad...

 

[Nahraf]

The ball is now in Pakistani channels/networks court to produce/telecast programs/dramas that can be entertaining to Pakistani viewers. It is perfect time time get more viewers and more advertising revenue for them.