{"id":57553,"date":"2019-03-22T10:58:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=57553"},"modified":"2019-03-22T10:58:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-22T10:58:41","slug":"pakistan-bans-broadcast-of-indian-premier-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistan-bans-broadcast-of-indian-premier-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan bans broadcast of Indian Premier League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A month after India had banned the live telecast of Pakistan Super League, Pakistan have now responded by suspending the broadcast of Indian Premier League, country\u2019s Information and Broadcasting minister Fawad Chaudhry confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision comes a month after DSport, the official broadcasters of the Pakistan Premier League in India, stopped the coverage of the tournament in protest against the Pulwama terror attack that killed 40 CRPF personnel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indian company IMG Reliance had also pulled out of its deal to produce the television coverage of the PSL worldwide forcing the Pakistan-based T20 league to find a new production company midway into the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chaudhry also accused the Indian team of politicising cricket. The Pakistan Cricket Board had urged the International Cricket Council  to take action against the Indian cricket team for sporting camouflage caps during an ODI in a five-match series against Australia. However, the ICC had confirmed that the BCCI had taken prior permission before players wore the army caps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe tried to keep politics and cricket apart but then the Indian cricket team played matches wearing army caps against Australia and there was no action taken against it,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month after India had banned the live telecast of Pakistan Super League, Pakistan have now responded by suspending the broadcast of Indian Premier League, country\u2019s Information and Broadcasting minister Fawad Chaudhry confirmed. The decision comes a month after DSport, the official broadcasters of the Pakistan Premier League in India, stopped the coverage of the [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57554,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57555,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57553\/revisions\/57555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}