Movies from India will be vetted by Pakistani intelligence before general release to make sure they are free of anti-Pakistan propaganda, Islamabad said Tuesday, another sign of rising tensions between the South Asian rivals. Pakistan last month decided to resume the screening of Bollywood movies in theaters across the country after briefly banning them following a deadly attack by militants in the disputed region of Kashmir, which is divided between the two countries. New Delhi blamed the attack, in which 19 Indian soldiers died, on militants based in Pakistan. Islamabad denied the charge. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif formed a committee to "evolve a mechanism" for the release of Indian movies in Pakistani cinemas, his office said. An official from the country's spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), would be part of the committee to examine the films, sources told dpa. Pakistani theaters already screen Bollywood movies before release. Some are banned for containing scenes or dialogues thought hostile to Pakistan. In 2015, a movie called "Phantom" was banned in Pakistan because it showed an Indian agent sneaking into the country and taking out the head of the organization blamed for 2008 massacre in the Indian city of Mumbai. Pakistan and India, both nuclear powers, have fought three wars and pulled back from the brink of a fourth one since they gained independence from colonial rule of Britain in 1947.
