Government advises OTT platforms to halt streaming of Pakistan-origin content

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting has issued an advisory to OTT platforms to take down Pakistan-origin content from their streaming services, as India carries out Operation Sindoor in response to the Pahalgam attack.

The advisory refers to the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, which stipulates that publishers like OTT platforms, media streaming services, and intermediaries should not host content that affects India’s sovereignty, threatens the country’s security, harms relations with foreign countries and incites violence or disturbs public order.

India successfully launched a series of precision strikes on terror bases in PoK, and Pakistan on May 7, dismantling infrastructure linked to Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba.

“In the interest of national security, all OTT platforms, media streaming platforms and intermediaries operating in India are advised to discontinue the web-series, films, songs, podcasts and other streaming media content, whether made available on a subscription-based model or otherwise, having its origins in Pakistan with immediate effect,” the order said.

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Meanwhile, Indian Armed Forces foiled attempts by the Pakistani military to engage a number of military targets in Northern and Western India using drones and missiles last night and destroyed a Pakistani  air defence system in Lahore, officials said on Thursday.

The Pakistani military attempted to target Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Adampur, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, Nal, Phalodi, Uttarlai, and Bhuj, they said.

These were neutralised by the Integrated Counter Unmanned Aircraft System (Grid and Air Defence systems), the defence ministry said.

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“The debris of these attacks is now being recovered from a number of locations that prove the Pakistani attacks,” it said.

Earlier today, as many as  15 civilians died as Pakistan continued cross-border shelling along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir for the second consecutive day following the launch of Operation Sindoor.