DUBAI - Bahrain on Sunday suspended the country's only independent newspaper indefinitely over a column that insulted a 'sisterly Arab country,' state news agency BNA reported, the second time the publication has been banned this year. The al-Wasat daily is associated with the mainly Shi'ite Muslim-led opposition, which has been facing a crackdown by the Sunni Muslim-led government since last year. BNA said the information ministry decided to stop al-Wasat from being printed or circulated until further notice for 'repeating the publication of ...that which spreads divisions in society and affects the Kingdom of Bahrain (vis a vis) other countries.' It said the decision came over a column published on Sunday which it said contained insults to an Arab country, but it did not say which one or give further details.
