Streaming platforms directed to take down Pakistani content

The ministry of information and broadcasting issued an advisory on Thursday asking all streaming platforms and intermediaries operating in India to immediately stop showing Pakistani content such as web series, films, songs and podcasts.

- Lata Jha

This would include content made available on a subscription-based model or otherwise, a ministry statement said.

The advisory referred to the IT Rules, 2021 which cites any information that "threatens the unity, integrity, defence, security, sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign States, or public order."

Several terrorist attacks in India have cross-border linkages with Pakistan-based state and non-state actors, the statement said, citing the 22 April terrorist attack in Pahalgam.