The ban will come in effect from October 21.
Amid Indo-Pak tension, Pakistan's media regulatory authority today decided to enforce a complete ban on Indian TV and radio contents from Friday and warned that the licences of those found guilty of violating the ban will be suspended.
Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) decided to ban airing of Indian content from October 21 at the request of the federal government, it said.
"The ban will come into effect at 3 PM on October 21, and radio and television stations which violate the ban will have their licences suspended without a prior show cause notice," PEMRA said in a statement.
The ban extends to all Indian content on cable and radio being aired in Pakistan.
The authority also decided to cancel one-sided rights given to Indian media by the government of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf in 2006.
PEMRA has already decided to get tough with Indian contents after complaints that most of the local channels were using more than five per cent foreign contents as allowed by it.
The regulator on August 31 said that strict action would be taken against the channels airing foreign content more than the prescribed limit and traders selling illegal DTH sets.
The decision was implemented from October 16 as PEMRA launched crackdown on those channels using foreign contents illegally.
Earlier in October, PEMRA granted its chairman Absar Alam final authority to revoke or suspend licences of companies illegally using Indian content.
Tensions have ran high between India and Pakistan since the terror attack on an Indian army base in Uri on September 18.
Later, India said it carried out "surgical strikes" across LoC and destroyed terrorist launchpads on September 28.
Pakistan has denied any surgical strikes took place, but said two of their soldiers were killed in cross-border firing by Indian Army.
Karan Johar not to engage with talent from Pakistan
Under pressure over opposition to the upcoming release of his film "Ae Dil Hai Mushkil" that features a Pakistani actor, director Karan Johar said he will not "engage with talent" from Pakistan in future and made a fervent appeal against stalling the blockbuster.
Raj Thackeray-led MNS and some other political parties have opposed release of films with actors from Pakistan after the Uri terror attack, putting a question mark on the fate of Johar's movie, slated for a pre-Diwali release on October 28.
The Cinema Owners Exhibitors Association of India too decided not to screen films with Pakistani actors in four states -- Maharashtra, Gujarat, Karnataka and Goa.
In a short video statement, Johar, 44, said his country comes first for him and while he understands the sentiments, hampering the release of the movie will actually hurt 300 strong Indian crew of the movie.
"I understand the sentiments because I feel the same.
Going forward, of course, I would like to say that I would not engage with the talent from the neighbouring country given the circumstance.
"But with that same energy I beseech you that over 300 Indians in my crew have put their blood, sweat and tears in my film 'Ae Dil Hai Mushkil' and I don't think it is fair to them to face any kind of turbulance on account of other fellow Indians," he said.
Johar's film starring Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is facing trouble for Pakistani actor Fawad Khan's extended cameo.
Johar also said he stayed silent because he felt a "deep sense of hurt and pain" to be questioned about his patriotism.
Johar said the country comes first to him and he has always kept that over and above everything, so, it is wrong to question his patriotism.
"There has been some talk about why I have remained silent for past two weeks. Today I would like to clarify that the reason why I remained silent is because of the deep sense of hurt and pain that I felt. There are few people who actually believe that I am being anti-national.
"I need to say this and I say this with strength that for me my country comes first. Nothing else matters to me but my country. I have always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love and that's all I have ever tried to do through my work and my cinema, he added."
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