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 opposition, which has been facing a crackdown by the 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.

Source: Timesofoman