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Jamia Hafsa plans FM radio

ISLAMABAD: The administration of Jamia Hafsa is planning to launch a short-range FM radio station in the capital to air religious programmes.

“The Jamia Hafsa administration is making arrangements to start a short-range radio station in the capital,” sources privy to the development told Daily Times. They said that initially the radio’s range would be seven to 10 square kilometres, but later it would be expanded up to 40 kilometres.

The planned radio station will air programmes like recitations from the holy Quran, Friday sermons by Maulana Abdul Aziz, the principal of Jamia Hafsa, and several other programmes relating to Islamic teachings.

Meanwhile, the Students Action Committee of Jamia Hafsa on Sunday pledged to reconstruct on its own the seven demolished mosques in the capital if the government does not.

One general constructed these mosques and the other demolished them “to please the US government”, Hamna Abdullah, Amna Adeem and Khaula Abdur Rehman of the Students Action Committee told a press conference. They said the government had promised to reconstruct all seven demolished mosques, but its “soft-peddling” on the issue showed that it was not serious in this regard.
Source: Daily Times
Date:3/26/2007