âThe Kite Runnerâ Film Outlawed in Afghanistan
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The Culture Ministry has quietly banned the import of the film based on the best-selling novel about childhood betrayal, ethnic tension and sexual predation in Afghanistan.
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A Pakistani Senate committee has proposed an end to the four-decade ban on showing movies from India, Agence France-Press reported. In a statement on Tuesday, the committee referred to the films when it said, âThe ban has practically become ineffective as these are being viewed uncensored in almost every household on cable TV as well as CDs and DVDs, necessitating a reappraisal to deal with the issue rationally.â.
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Western pop videos, India's Bollywood movies and even Charlton Heston's "The Ten Commandments" have Afghanistan's fledgling cable TV stations in hot water.
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DENPASAR, Indonesia  - Indonesia's resort island of Bali has banned screenings of a film on the 2002 bombings there because it could "reopen old wounds", a provincial film board official said on Thursday.
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A controversial British film based on an award-winning novel about Bangladeshi immigrants, poverty and Islamic fundamentalism in London had its gala premier here Friday night - months after its royal performance was scrapped due to security fears.
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A change in the rules means a number of Oscar contenders are now ineligible for the 2007 Bafta Film Awards.
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Saudi Arabia bans the influential pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat, after it criticises the government.
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No, really The forced closure of Sacha AliG Baron Borat Cohen's Borat.kz website has been listed by the US State Department as an example of the Kazakhstani government's restrictions on freedom of speech and other human rights abuses.â¦
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Best-selling book The Da Vinci Code is banned in Lebanon after Catholic leaders deemed it offensive to Christianity.
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The screenings for the film "Illegal Aliens," which featured Anna Nicole Smith, is now cancelled due to the actressâ death on Thursday. The movie, which is planned for release in April, was going to be shown to journalists but the director, Davi...
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Pair deported after Kabul government denounces them for 'negotiating' with Taliban
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DOHA: State television channels of Qatar and Jordan announced on Saturday that they would not broadcast a series on a love story set in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan for âtechnical reasonsâ, a day after Islamists issued threats against the Jordanian
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A much wider audience will be introduced to Afghan kite culture with the American release of the film âThe Kite Runnerâ on Friday.
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Male tailors in an Afghan province have been barred from measuring female clients for fittings following a new local ruling that resembles the restrictions the ultra-conservative Taliban imposed on the country when in power.
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Norway closed its embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul Sunday because of "terror threats," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said.
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Sale of red roses and red gifts has been banned by Saudi Arabia's religious police in the run-up to Valentine's Day, reports a local newspaper
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The title song of Abbas-Mustan's Aitraaz has been canned in one shot.