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New radio transmitters to be operational in August

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ISLAMABAD: High-power transmitters of Radio Pakistan would become operational in Dera Ismail Khan, Hyderabad, Faqirabad and some other cities in August, a PBC spokesman said. The PBC had launched a big programme to replace old transmitters with ultramodern digital transmitters and one 400 kilowatt transmitter had been inaugurated in Peshawar last month. This transmitter, the […]


BBC appreciates Geo’s ‘Amaan Ramazan’ programme

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KARACHI: The highly popular British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its recent report has termed Geo’s Amaan Ramazan programme the most preferred and Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain the favourite host of the people of Pakistan. It also reported that the participants of this programme are being presented motorcycles, TV sets, laptops and even in some cases […]


BBC confirms MQM report will not be put on its website

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By: Murtaza Ali Shah LONDON: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has found itself embroiled in a serious controversy of editorial independence after the editorial managers decided not to publish online the full investigative report of Owen Bennett-Jones, the BBC reporter who led investigations into the Muttahida Qaumi Movement for the flagship Newsnight programme. A BBC […]


BBC Goes Off Air In Some Localities

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KARACHI: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) World Service transmission remained off air in different parts of the city on Thursday that cable operators said had nothing to do with any ‘policy decision’ before the international network aired a programme on the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). A number of people from different areas called the Dawn […]