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Al Jazeera to be taken off air in India for showing wrong map of country

Transmission to be halted between April 21 and 27; Parts of Indian map displayed with Pakistan, reports say

Web Desk April 17, 2015

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The Indian government has called for Qatar-based channel Al Jazeera to be taken off air for five days for recurrently showing the wrong map of India in various programs.

The channel will be suspended from April 22 to midnight of April 27 by the order of India’s Information and Broadcasting Ministry.

Reports suggested that parts of the map were displayed with Pakistan and the islands of Lakshdweep and Andaman & Nicobar were absent.

In its order, the Indian ministry said Al-Jazeera telecast news reports in 2013 and 2014 with incorrect graphical map of India. Sources said the Indian government had issued a show-cause notice to the channel last year over the same issue.

Al Jazeera responded by explaining that their maps were automatically generated by an internationally-known software used by global news providers. It assured the government that it took their concerns very seriously and all the India and Pakistan maps were being reviewed by them before being aired.

However, the information ministry along with an Inter-Ministerial Committee (IMC) decided that the channel had violated the provisions of the programme code; thus, halting transmission for five days.

This article originally appeared on The New Indian Express

COMMENTS (26)

Azi | 9 years ago | Reply @ tiny hearts Had it not been for ETs love for biased comments esp anti Pakistan, I had posted befitting response to you all girls. Unfortunately I don't have the energy to respond in similar fashion to people whose opinion couldn't be taken anywhere near serious.

dracullah | 9 years ago | Reply @Raj Kumar: Mullah bhai Typing while standing in your dole queue?

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ajeet | 9 years ago | Reply India should throw the qatari ambassador out so that he can go back to Qatar and start herding his camels.

Raja Porus | 9 years ago | Reply The gist of it: Indians are the biggest cry-babies in the world. And if you want proof, remember the deafening silence in Bangalore when Saeed Anwar and Aamir Sohail were thrashing Venkatesh Prasad all around the park? Man was that some silence or what!

Raj - USA | 9 years ago | Reply @Raj Kumar: "I am still smiling rather laughing at your idiocracy. Get over Pakistan phobia and live a life." We have a saying in Bengali: "Bokha teen baar hashe". Translates: "An idiot laughs three times". First he laughs ahead of others to show that he is smart and has understood the joke before others. Second, he laughs with others even without understanding the joke. Finally, after a while, he understands the joke, and laughs, even when others have stopped laughing. The point I have made in my comment is that, the opinions expressed are by the leaders and rulers of Pakistan who have led and ruled Pakistan for a long time and have mass following in Pakistan. They made these comments in public rallies attended by huge crowd or in prime international media. Particularly when Altaf Hussein made his comments the women in the audience clapped, cheered and applauded him with all smiles on their faces. I have watched the video of his speech. News anchor Kashif Abbasi and analysts like Haroon Rasheed have also mentioned it in TV discussions. You had your first laugh ahead of others, and also laughed the 2nd time with others or continued your laughing till others joined in. Now that you may have understood the joke (or fact), you can have your laugh for the third time. Are you still laughing?????

ARA | 9 years ago | Reply ARA and others, wow, so much hate towards India.. well, you hate your own as well, so it's not a surprise. Always judging Sufis or others that they are not proper Muslims and you on the other hand do such a great job. There is Chaos in all Muslims countries, fighting amongst each other or going after minorities within your own tribes.. so let's not worry about others

Gopeet-UK.Can.Aus.NZ.Nepal. | 9 years ago | Reply @Raj - USA: Raj, you have to admit, India is a nation that has been ruled by others for thousands of years. Hindus were never empire builders. A small country like Pak defeated them 3 times. Never heard of a hindu conqueror or a great raja.

Prada | 9 years ago | Reply Good riddance !! Other nations should follow suit and shut down the channel. Come on, Pakistan ! Show a BIG heart and ban the channel !!

Abdul | 9 years ago | Reply @Azi: How's Dr. Lobo ?

Abdul | 9 years ago | Reply @wb: why do you want to rob us of our entertainment. That too now that Comedy circus is over ?

Azi | 9 years ago | Reply @ these little girls Look at their insecurities, laughable. They really do fight like girls. Haha

Pakistani | 9 years ago | Reply @Raj - USA: Indians have tiny hearts and they fight like girls..,what do you think about that...

Milind | 9 years ago | Reply @Azi - "As per shahid afridi, “these Indians have tiny hearts”." Actually he subconsciously meant Indians have guts to stand for their sovereignty.. Unlike you guys who shout about ghairat day in day out, only to be walked over by U.S. (Drones) or Saudis etc...

Bharat | 9 years ago | Reply Nothing to do with guts They can continue, and India can take them off the air permanently. If they continue, they do have guts If they discontinue, they need be called cowards

ARA | 9 years ago | Reply @Raj - USA What ever u quoted are from people having no value and respect except PervAiz Musharraf. Do u know what actually happens in India left alone what others say:- - The biggest rapist country in the world - Girls are not safe in India - People are burned alive for caste differences - Minorities are not safe in India - Kashmiris are treated like animals - They have small hearts and fight like little girls - They burn and destroy when they loose in cricket, in fact they are the worst losers - They have no Shame at all - They are the worst trolls - You always stab in the back

wb | 9 years ago | Reply @Azi: "As per shahid afridi, “these Indians have tiny hearts”. They fight like girls" And you surrendered 90,000 to these girls? Then you must be some men.

wb | 9 years ago | Reply Well done. We don't need propaganda. We need news. Now, will the Indian government be kind enough to take Arnab Goswamy off air and save us an international embarrassment? I know he's right-to-center. But I still want him gone.

Raj Kumar | 9 years ago | Reply @Raj - USA: I am still smiling rather laughing at your idiocracy. Get over Pakistan phobia and live a life.

Raj Kumar | 9 years ago | Reply Al Jazeera did not know that when you step on Indian tail, all you get is howling. They better respect this poverty-ridden atomic power dreaming to become member of the UN Security Council.

PrasadDeccani | 9 years ago | Reply @Azi: and my neighbor loses even to girls !

Pakka Indian | 9 years ago | Reply @shah (Birlin): @shah (Birlin): This channel has "guts"??? Yeah, because they portray fiction which suits Pakistan. And, Sir, although your spelling of the word "guts" is correct, you don't seem to know that the German capital city is spelt as "Berlin" and not "Birlin". You really don't need "guts" to do that, do you?

Raj - USA | 9 years ago | Reply @Azi: "As per shahid afridi, “these Indians have tiny hearts”. They fight like girls" So, a cricketer Shahid Afridi is an authority. Let us see what other authorities of Pakistan have said. (1) Musharraf who was Pakitan's president, Chief of Army staff, President and Chief Executive said in an interview to CNN that Pakistani woman willingly get raped to get visas for Europe and USA. (2) Molana Fazlur Rehman said the leader of a major political /religious party said in a public meeting that the woman and girls attending PTI rallies are prostitutes performing mujra. (3) Altaf Hussein said in his telephone address to his followers that woman members of PTI are prostitutes and some woman attending the rallies are there just to recruit prostitutes. (4) Pakistan's former Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gillani said that no one is stopping Pakistanis who want to leave Pakistan. When he said "Who is stopping them" in an interview with CNN, he actually meant that Pakistanis shameless and willing to do anything to go out of Pakistan but are unable to do so because other countries do not want Pakistanis to immigrate to their countries. (5) A US Congressman has also said that Pakistanis can sell even their mothers for $100.

JM | 9 years ago | Reply Qatar must now invoke or revoke its defense pact with India.

Azi | 9 years ago | Reply As per shahid afridi, "these Indians have tiny hearts". They fight like girls

shah (Birlin) | 9 years ago | Reply One new channel with guts...

Roger Reddy | 9 years ago | Reply The most biased & pro-radicalization news channel ever.

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