Indian TV ban by Pakistan over river row

PAKISTAN’S Supreme Court has reimposed a ban on all Indian TV channels overturning an earlier order from a lower court.

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar said it was justified as India was damming rivers that flow into Pakistan.

Pakistan said the dams are being used against it as a weapon, a claim India denies.

More than 80% of irrigated agricultural land in Pakistan depends on the river Indus and its tributaries, most of which flow from the Himalayas.

Pakistan first imposed a ban following the Indopakistan war of 1965.

It was eventually lifted in 2008.