{"id":32667,"date":"2012-02-03T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=32667"},"modified":"2012-02-03T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T16:23:41","slug":"balochistan-television-stations-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=32667","title":{"rendered":"Balochistan: Urdu-language TV stations suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Urdu-language television stations available via cable were <a title=\"IFEX - Television stations in Balochistan suspended by cable operators following threats \" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifex.org\/pakistan\/2012\/02\/02\/television_stations_suspended\/\" target=\"_blank\">suspended<\/a>\u00a0in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan province on Wednesday, after the Cable Operators Association\u00a0received threats from nationalist groups. Babark Khan, president of the Balochistan Cable Operators Association, told the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) that he received a threatening letter in writing from the Baloch Student Organisation\u00a0on 31 January calling for the transmission of Urdu-language television stations to be halted and threatening consequences. The fraught region has faced\u00a0separatist insurgency carried out by Baloch nationalists, who claim their grievances have been paid little attention by Pakistan media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urdu-language television stations available via cable were suspended\u00a0in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan province on Wednesday, after the Cable Operators Association\u00a0received threats from nationalist groups. Babark Khan, president of the Balochistan Cable Operators Association, told the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF) that he received a threatening letter in writing from the Baloch Student Organisation\u00a0on 31 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4061,584,585],"tags":[3648,4261,7351,727,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32690,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32667\/revisions\/32690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}