ISLAMABAD: Despite an announcement by the government that the plan to lease out the headquarters of Radio Pakistan has been shelved, angry employees on Thursday forced the director general out of his office to lodge their protest, forcing the information minister to issue a statement saying that action would be taken against those involved in […]
LARKANA: The 100 kiloWatt medium wave transmitter of the Radio Pakistan Larkana which was planned to be made functional in 2008 is yet to be put in operation due to technical reasons. It was installed near Chuharpur village located along the Larkana-Naudero Road after complaints by listeners about low signals. Although the work for the […]
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court on Monday issued notices to Federation, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Director General Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) and Controller news /current affairs PBC in response to a petition filed by the employees of Radio Pakistan. A single- member bench of Chief Justice Muhammad Anwar Khan Kasi heard the petition filed […]
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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has removed all permanent staff from its news and current affairs channel and detached the transmissions of four provinces from its main hook-up. Sources in the PBC (Radio Pakistan) told Dawn that during the last a few months, the management had transferred over a couple of dozen permanent staff […]
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PESHAWAR: Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) has planned to improve quality of all programmes and restore medium wave transmission at various stations in the country. Addressing Guest Hour programme of Peshawar Press Club here on Monday, PBC Director General Samina Pervaiz said that short medium wave transmission would be revived in Karachi, Multan, Hyderabad and Larkana. […]
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QUETTA: Apropos a news report published in Dawn on Saturday, a spokesman for the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC), Islamabad, has issued a statement which says the Radio Pakistan’s Quetta centre is covering Quetta and other areas of Balochistan satisfactorily. The spokesman said that 150-kilowatt transmitter installed in Yaru in 1974 is functioning and was not […]
QUETTA: Radio Pakistan’s Quetta centre has stopped its transmissions on medium and short waves because the transmitter required to relay programmes has simply stopped functioning, according to a senior official. “There has been no transmission on medium and short waves from Quetta radio station in the last five to six years,” a senior official of […]
ISLAMABAD: The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has recommended to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting for the termination of the contract of FM-101 given to M/s Loud and Clear by the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) following the special audit report of the Auditor General of Pakistan Revenue (AGPR). The AGPR submitted its special audit report […]
ISLAMABAD: “If you will work in cooperation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed. We should begin to work in that spirit and in time all these angularities of the majority and minority communities […] the Pathans, Punjabis, Shias, Sunnis and […] the Brahmins, Vashnavas, Khatris, also Bengalis, Madrasis, will vanish.” […]
We have, over the decades, lost significant chunks of our history. Much of this has been caused by the deliberate attempts at distortion and tampering undertaken over the years by leaders in an attempt to serve their own purposes. The results have been a confused, uncertain society within which bigotry and ignorance have thrived. This, […]
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ہیڈلائنز:۔ حکومت کا طالبان کیخلاف فضائی حملے روکنے کا اعلان طالبان کے خلاف کارروائیاں روکنے کا فیصلہ خوش آیندہے،پروفیسر ابراہیم یوکرین میں فوجی مداخلت کاکوئی ارادہ نہیں؛ امریکی حکام اور بھارت کیخلاف پرفارم کرکے بہت خوش ہوں ، شاہدآفریدی خبروں کی تفصیل:۔ طالبان کی طرف سے عارضی جنگ بندی کے فیصلے کے بعد حکومت نے […]
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ہیڈلائنز:۔ قومی اسمبلی میں ملکی داخلی صورتحال پر بحث۔ دہشتگردی سے پاکستان کی سلامتی وبقاءکو شدید خطرات لاحق ہیں، الطاف حسین۔ فاٹا میں ٹارگٹڈ آپریشن سے پولیو وائرس پاکستان بھر میں پھیلنے کا خطرہ ہے، عالمی ادارہ صحت۔ بھارتی جنگی جنون، اسلحے کا سب سے بڑا خریدار بن گیا۔ اور ایشیا کپ کرکٹ ٹورنامنٹ کا […]
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ہیڈلائنز:۔ پاکستان کی سالمیت کو مقدم رکھنے والوں سے مذاکرات کئے جائیں گے، وزیراعظم۔ فوجی آپریشن عوام و فوج کے درمیان نفرتوں کی دیوار کھڑی کرنے کی سازش ہے، امیر جماعت اسلامی۔ پاکستان اور ایران کا سرحدی علاقوں میں دہشت گردی کے واقعات کے خاتمے پر اتفاق۔ کراچی میں فائرنگ اور پر تشدد واقعات میں […]
Media and the policing of society
By: Haneen Rafi KARACHI: “The incidents of intolerance in society are not as important as is the response to them of the civil society,” said journalist Ghazi Salahuddin. He also laid stress on the response determining the true strength, or weakness, of a society. This was shared at a roundtable discussion held on Thursday titled ‘The […]
Radio ki kahani: Abidi for revival of radio listening
ISLAMABAD: Raza Ali Abidi, arguably one of the most accomplished broadcasters in South Asia, has called for a focus on airing infotainment so as to reintroduce radio listening in the country. The veteran broadcaster and author of a number of books as well as travelogues cited the fast paced nature of broadcasting itself as the […]
Radio show Rangers Hour begins today
KARACHI: Senior officials of the Pakistan Rangers, Sindh, will be on air twice a day, five days a week on the radio station FM-101 from Friday to receive complaints and suggestions from the public amid the ongoing targeted-operation in the city, said a spokesman for the paramilitary force. “In the launching show of the programme, […]
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