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Radio Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Radio Pakistan is the official international broadcasting station of Pakistan. Radio Pakistan was able to start its external services on regular basis on 1949. Radio Pakistan continues to broadcast programmes which promote relations between Pakistan and organizations of which Pakistan is the member. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio_Pakistan   (204 words)

RadioStationWorld - Pakistan - Radio Station Websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Radio 1 Karachi - Karachi (Sindh) PK Radio Active - Karachi (Sindh) PK FM 100 Karachi - Karachi (Sindh) PK.. FM101 (Radio Pakistan) - Karachi (Sindh) PK Mast FM - Karachi (Sindh) PK Apna Karachi 107 - Karachi (Sindh) PK Lahore, Punjab Radio Buraq Peshawar - Peshawar (North-West Frontier) PK.. www.tvradioworld.com /region2/pak/Radio_TV_on_Internet.asp   (260 words)

CNN - Pakistan explodes nuclear devices - May 28, 1998 Pakistan detonated the devices in the Chagai region of Pakistan's desolate southwestern Baluchistan province, barely 50 kilometers (30 miles) from the border with Iran and Afghanistan. Afterward, Pakistan said it was ready to adapt a nuclear warhead to its newly tested long-range Ghauri missile, which is capable of traveling 1,500 kilometers (900 miles) and hitting most targets in India. Pakistan's nuclear test is bound to bring a host of economic sanctions against Pakistan, something the impoverished nation of 140 million people can hardly afford. www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9805/28/pakistan.nuclear.2/index.html   (510 words)

Shortwave Stations In Pakistan The callsigns in use for the radio stations in Pakistan are all in the AP range, with A standing for Asia and P for Pakistan. The shortwave transmitter APQ2 of Radio Pakistan Quetta is located on the southeastern edge of Quetta and is co-sited with the MW facility. The shortwave radio station known as Radio Pakistan Islamabad is located 15 miles southeast of the twin city complex Rawalpindi-Islamabad on the Grand Trunk Road that leads to Lahore. radiodx.com /spdxr/sw_pakistan.htm   (999 words)

Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This was followed by new radio stations at Hyderabad (1951), Quetta (1956), a second station at Rawalpindi (1960) and a receiving centre at Peshawar (1960). Radio Pakistan opened a new broadcasting house in Khairpur on 7th May 1986, followed by relay stations in 1989 at Sibi and Abbottabad. October 1998 saw Radio Pakistan started FM transmission and over the period 2002-2005, new FM stations were opened at Islamabad, Gwadar, Mianwali, Sargodha, Kohat, Bannu and Mithi. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pakistan_Broadcasting_Corporation   (416 words)

AsiaMedia :: PAKISTAN: Illegal radio stations boosting extremism Several of the illegal radio stations were operating from various seminaries and mosques in Wari, Usheri Darra, Jabar and Barawal Banday areas while a women's madressah in Upper Dir was transmitting sermons on issues ranging from jihad to day-to-day problems of women, a local resident told this correspondent. Sources said that illegal FM radio stations were not restricted to conservative tribal areas, adding that the phenomenon was spreading fast to settled areas. The number of illegal FM radio stations operating in Peshawar was one while there were 11 in Chrasadda, four in Mardan, 28 in Swabi, 13 in Buner, four in Hangu, one in Karak, two in Mansehra and two in Batagram. www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article-southasia.asp?parentid=45672   (854 words)

Pakistan Embassy Japan Tokyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Pakistan displays some of Asia’s most magnificent landscapes as it stretches from the Arabian Sea, its southern border, to some of the world’s most spectacular mountain ranges in the north. Pakistan is also home to sites that date back to the world’s earliest settlements rivaling those of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. The Arabian Sea is Pakistan's southern boundary with 1,064 km of coastline. www.pakistanembassyjapan.com   (498 words)

Get Pakistan.Com: Munni Baji Parveen Akhtar alias Munni Baji, was born in Simla in 1941. Behzad Lakhnavi, a family friend, introduced this frock-clad girl to Radio at a time when even the girl didn't knew that she is going to play such a great role in the history of Radio. In answer to what made her revert to Radio, she replied in her peculiar voice, "In 1958, the Capital shifted from Karachi to Islamabad and the business of the canteen shifted towards the negative side. www.getpakistan.com /home/looking_back/MunniBaji.htm   (789 words)

On the Media BOB GARFIELD: Radio and TV networks suffer from similar pressures, but for the first time in Pakistan's history, the broadcast media are breaking loose of the government's shackles. State radio is even less cutting edge than PTV, and its content is screened by the same watchful state eye. Masror Hussain is an anchor at Radio Pakistan, and he says his work is strictly monitored by a rather Orwellian trinity. www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_010904_pakistan.html   (965 words)

PTV World News Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Pakistan is leading the five match series 1-0. Pakistan beat India by 183 runs in the third World Cup Cricket Tournament for Blind in Islamabad. Pakistan to contest EU trade moves at WTO Pakistan has decided to challenge the European Union's (EU) trade restrictive measures adopted under the generalised system of preferences (GSP) plus scheme and anti-dumping duty on bed linen in the Geneva www.ptv-news.com.pk   (714 words)

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Country profiles | Country profile: Pakistan The east wing - present-day Bangladesh - is on the Bay of Bengal bordering India and Burma and the west wing - present-day Pakistan - stretches from the Himalayas down to the Arabian Sea. Pakistan came under military rule again in October 1999 after the ousting of a civilian government which had lost a great deal of public support. Pakistan and India regularly engage in a war of words via their respective media, occasionally banning broadcasts from the other country. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/country_profiles/1157960.stm   (1114 words)

AsiaMedia :: PAKISTAN: Quake-hit radio station left to suffer Muzaffarabad --- The quake-stricken employees of Radio Muzaffarabad are still working in abject conditions due to an 'indifferent' attitude of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation towards their plight. Of the two buildings of the 150kw radio station, one was flattened and the other was rendered unusable by the Oct 8 quake which consequently brought its transmissions of to a grinding halt. He pointed out that employees of Radio Pakistan Faisalabad had sent an amount of Rs350,000 for their quake-hit colleagues in Muzaffarabad but nobody knew where that money had vanished. www.asiamedia.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=48658   (407 words)

The Government of Pakistan The Prime Minister said Pakistan did not act in a haste nor in a tit-for-tat manner and ensured an utmost restraint-waiting for international community to give a befitting response to the threat posed by Indian nuclear weaponization. Speaking on the occasion, he said Radio Pakistan has played a pivotal role in the development of the country and the nation as a great national institution and we can be proud of it. Vajpayee to resume meaningful talks with Pakistan so that the disputes between the two countries including the core issue of Kashmir, are resolved and the whole region attained prosperity. www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/pakistan/1998/980607-pbc.htm   (1309 words)

UNICEF Pakistan - Media centre In a developing media environment, FM radio stations are increasing rapidly in all parts of the country as a popular and powerful channel for news and information dissemination. In this, the young interviewers from the Campus Radio team meet with girls and boys, offering them the opportunity to express how the disastrous impact on their home communities and the new experiences of camp life have altered forever their daily reality as well as their vision The radio series will continue into 2006 with programmes in a variety of formats created around subject areas chosen by the youth broadcasters. www.unicef.org /pakistan/media_1066.htm   (684 words)

RBC RADIO - India - Pakistan National Symbols Blessed be the sacred land, Happy be the bounteous realm, Symbol of high resolve, Land of Pakistan. The national emblem of Pakistan was approved by the Central Government in 1954..There is a crescent and star crest at the top of the emblem, this is the traditional symbol if Islam. In the centre is a shield divided into four parts showing cotton, wheat, tea and jute which are the main crops of Pakistan. www.rbcradio.com /knowpakistan.html   (192 words)

ARRLWeb: Space & Beyond: Pakistan's New Moon Pakistan's tiny Badr-1 Amateur Radio satellite was the first indigenously made satellite of the Muslim world. SUPARCO is at the University of the Punjab at Lahore, a prominent border city in eastern Pakistan not far from Delhi, India, and at the Arabian Sea port of Karachi in southern Pakistan. Pakistan Amateur Radio Society, engineers who were hams at SUPARCO in Lahore began building a small hamsat during the last half of 1986. www.arrl.org /news/features/2003/07/10/1   (936 words)

The Hindu : National : Nod for Radio Pakistan reporter likely Almost after a decade, a Radio Pakistan correspondent is likely to be a new face among the foreign journalist corps based here. The Government of India is poised to approve the visa application for the Radio Pakistan (also known as the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation) correspondent, a diplomatic source told this correspondent. The principle of "strict reciprocity" was applied in the mid-1990s and the number of Indian and Pakistani correspondents was reduced to the figure of two each. www.hindu.com /2004/06/24/stories/2004062405081200.htm   (401 words)

The Communication Initiative - Experiences - Uks Radio Project - Pakistan The Uks Radio Project is run by an all-female team of journalists and broadcasters, whose aim is to rectify stereotypical and discriminatory societal attitudes through media. The radio programmes are aired by various FM radio stations throughout the country. For organisers, radio promised to be a most effective and far-reaching medium in a country with "an abysmally low literacy rate and the non-availability of television transmission in remote areas". www.comminit.com /experiences/pds2005/experiences-3160.html   (618 words)

Pakistan Daily UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei will visit Libya on Monday at a time when revelations from the North African state are helping unravel an international smuggling ring in atomic weapons equipment and technology(WN)... US and British special forces have cornered Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in a mountainous area in northwest Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, it was reported. President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that Pakistan as a state had never and would never proliferate its hard earned nuclear technology to any other country. archive.wn.com /2004/02/22/1400/pakistandaily   (722 words)

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistan cleric radio station hit Pakistani troops have fired mortar shells at a radio transmitter operated by a Muslim cleric in the town of Bara in north-west Pakistan. Mufti Munir Shakir's radio station -which was hit by Pakistani forces - had criticised his rival cleric Pir Saifur Rehman, who had also set up a small FM radio station. Bara is the main trade route between Pakistan and Afghanistan and is an important town in Khyber agency which borders Afghanistan. news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/2/hi/south_asia/4863528.stm   (231 words)

Radio Pakistan Pakistan has handed over written proposals to Afghan authorities regarding peace jirgas to help curb terrorism and control cross border activities. The third One-Day Cricket International between Pakistan and the West Indies is being played in Lahore today. Glimpses of earthquake devastation in Pakistan and Azad Kashmir www.radio.gov.pk   (216 words)

Radio Pakistan Home Broadcasting He was told that Pakistan had expressed the hope that India would avoid taking provocative military action and that Pakistan reserves its right to respond appropriately. The Chairman of the League Mohammad Farooq Rehmani in a statement in Islamabad said that free and impartial plebiscite under the UN auspices is to be arranged in the Indian occupied Kashmir to resolve the issue in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmir people. It was on this day last year that Pakistan conducted five nuclear tests to ward off dangers to the national security in the wake of Pokhran blasts by India. www.fas.org /news/pakistan/1999/990528-pbcm28.htm   (1881 words)

Radio Pakistan Home Broadcasting Muhammad Nawaz Sharif set aside Indian allegations of Pakistan's involvement in alleged infiltration across the line of control and described it as a pretext to justify Indian actions. In his message, the Prime Minister said that Pakistan desired that durable peace should be established in the region. He expressed the commitment to the Lahore Declaration and to the dialogue process which requires Pakistan and India to intensify efforts to resolve all issues peacefully including the core issue of Kashmir. www.fas.org /news/pakistan/1999/pbcm31.htm   (1233 words)

Pakistan Media Pakistan's media regulator estimated that the country could support more than 800 private radio stations. Many viewers in Pakistan watch a range of international satellite TV channels, via a dish or an often-unlicensed cable TV operator. Nevertheless, Pakistan's print media are among the most outspoken in South Asia. www.southtravels.com /asia/pakistan/media.html   (320 words)

Community Radio Network - Pakistani FM Radio Stations Appeal for Emergency Broadcast Licenses for Disaster Areas The appeal was made to the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) on October 13, 2005 in Karachi at a meeting that launched AIR. Given the scale of earthquake tragedy, community FM radio stations across Pakistan request your esteemed organization to allow temporary FM radio broadcast from the disaster areas for the affected people in order to augment rescue and relief efforts. Immediately grant temporary FM radio licenses to one of the existing/security cleared FM radio licensees. www.communityradionetwork.org /news_item.2005-10-17.7470889744   (550 words)

RadioShack.com This fun, informative and growing hobby is a great way to talk with people all over the globe that share interests. Plus, using a shortwave radio is as easy as turning a dial and tuning in. Below you will helpful information for selecting a shortwave radio and accessories to enhance your listening experience. www.radioshack.com /sm---ra-ShortwaveRadios06.html   (153 words)

The Communication Initiative - Experiences - HIV/AIDS Radio Programmes - Pakistan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The idea is that radio can be a tool for bringing about behavioural change, provided that the communication is effective and accurate. The course offered the participants what Internews Pakistan describes as "their first opportunity to talk openly with a person living with HIV/AIDS" - a woman from Lahore who is living with HIV and working to educate others about AIDS named Shukria Gul. Once trained, the journalists produced a series of radio programmes on HIV/AIDS in their country in both the Urdu and Pashto languages. www.comminit.com /experiences/pds2005/experiences-3503.html   (519 words)

Open Directory - Regional: Asia: Pakistan: News and Media BBC World Service - Radio Schedules for Pakistan - Online listening plus day-by-day broadcast programme schedules with radio stations and frequencies by city and language. Radio Pakistan - Broadcast 300 hours of programming a day through the facilities of 23 transmitters in the domestic and external services. TvRadioWorld - Pakistan - List of broadcasters, TV and radio stations (local, national, international, shortwave and on the web), with links where available. dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/Pakistan/News_and_Media   (395 words)

IUCN Pakistan - Home By Mahvash Roshani: IUCN Pakistan and Pakistan Water Partnership (PWP) have arranged a workshop on the theme “Water Management Options – Impacts on Land, Agriculture and Livelihoods” in, Quetta on September 18, 2003 from 9.00 am to 3.30 pm. Karachi, Sept 10: Radio Pakistan, Karachi has started a weekly program in which Mr. Karachi, Aug 29: The Pakistan National Committee (PNC) of IUCN urged the all relevant agencies of Federal and Sindh government and all others concerned, to urgently take necessary actions to help avert Tasman Spirit ship-like accidents in the future and to minimise the impact of this tragedy on human and marine life. www.iucn.org /places/pakistan/news   (476 words)

Pakistan radio stations on FM, mediumwave and shortwave Pakistan radio stations on FM, mediumwave and shortwave The national language in Pakistan is Urdu, but Pakistani radio stations also broadcast in English and other languages. A larger map of Pakistan showing provinces is also available (will open a new browser window) www.asiawaves.net /pakistan-radio.htm   (247 words)

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