Fiktiv Pakistan - Radio Pakistan

Radio Pakistan serves as the national public broadcaster for radio in Pakistan. Although some local stations predate Radio Pakistan's founding, it is the oldest existing broadcasting network in Pakistan. The network was established on 14 August 1947, following Pakistan's independence from Britain. Radio Pakistan services include AM news services and FM 101 and FM 93.

Radio Pakistan was originally known as the Pakistan Broadcasting Service at the time of its inception on 14 August 1947. It had the honour of publicly announcing Pakistan's independence from Britain on 13 August 1947 at 11:59 pm. Mustafa Ali Hamdani made the announcement from Lahore in Urdu and English, while Abdullah Jan Maghmoom made the announcement from Peshawar in Pashto.

The announcement was heard as follows:
Greetings Pakistan Broadcasting Service. We are speaking from Lahore. The night between the thirteenth and fourteenth of August, year forty-seven. It is twelve o'clock. Dawn of Freedom.

Radio Pakistan broadcasts are in 34 languages: Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Seraiki, Potowari, Pashto, Hindko, Kohistani, Khowar, Kashmiri, Gojri, Burushaski, Balti, Shina, Wakhi, Hazargi, Brahvi, English, Chinese, Dari, Persian, Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Sinhala, Nepali, Russian, Turkish, Arabic, and Bengali.

According to one of the pioneers of Radio Pakistan, Agha Nasir (9 February 1937 – 12 July 2016), three radio stations at Dhaka (established in 1939), Lahore (1937) and Peshawar Radio Station (1935) existed at the time of independence of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. There was no radio station in the capital of Pakistan, Karachi in 1947. On a high priority basis, a major program of expansion saw new stations opened at Karachi and Rawalpindi in 1948, and a new broadcasting house at Karachi in 1950. This was followed by new stations at Hyderabad (1951), Quetta (1956), a second station at Rawalpindi (1960) and a Receiving Centre at Peshawar (1960). In 1970, training facilities were opened in Islamabad and a station opened at Multan.

A 1973 law, signed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (President and later Prime minister) regulated Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) as "to publish, circulate, distribute and regulate (reliable and trusted) news and information in any part of the world in any manner that may be deemed fit".

Its one core mission states: "education, news and information to be brought to public awareness the whole range of significant activity.".[6] It was converted into Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation on 20 December 1972 as a statutory body governed by the Board of Directors and Director General. The Radio Pakistan World Service was established on 21 April 1973. The service reached the remotest parts of Pakistan with stations at Gilgit (1977) and Skardu (1977) in the far north and Turbat (1981) in the far southwest. From 1981 to 1982 stations and transmitters were also established at Dera Ismail Khan, Khuzdar and Faisalabad. Radio Pakistan opened a new broadcasting house in Khairpur on 7 May 1986, followed by relay stations in 1989 at Sibi and on 21 March 1991 in Abbottabad.

The remoter parts of the country began to receive coverage with new stations opened in the 1990s at Chitral, Loralai and Zhob. In 1997, the Federal Minister of Information inaugurated the computerisation of the PBC news processing system and availability of the news bulletins on the Internet in text and audio form. FM 101 Channel of PBC was launched on 1 October 1998 having stations at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi and now this channel have nine stations throughout Pakistan and is the biggest FM Radio network of Pakistan. In October 1998, 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.

In the last two and a half years, three new networks have been launched by PBC. On 28 August 2008, PBC launched National Broadcasting Service (NBS) the first dedicated Current Affairs Channel. It is a combination of 5 (100 KW) AM transmitters permanently linked together to broadcast a single national program beamed across Pakistan. Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore, Quetta and Karachi are the main stations generating the national programming. It is a 17 hours programming on major national and international issues, target audience and literary and cultural programs. PBC launched a new Community FM channel after February 2009 Station Directors Conference. The network is called FM-93 Network with 22 stations across Pakistan. Gilgit, Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Abbottabad, Chitral, Bannu, Kohat, Dera Ismail Khan, Sargodha, Mianwali, Faislabad, Lahore, Multan, Larkana, Khairpur, Bhit Shah, Hyderabad, Mithi, Karachi and Gwadar transmit the FM 93 network. On 14 November, PBC launched its first English Music Channel in Islamabad called Planet 94. The network operates on FM 94. The second and third stations of the English channel are soon to start their transmissions from Lahore and Karachi.

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News and Current Affairs Channel is a Radio station owned by Radio Pakistan. It is broadcast from Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta and Peshawar on medium wave frequencies.

In the background of fast moving events around the world, it was felt that the audience needed to be kept informed with the latest events. For this purpose a News and Current Affairs Channel was launched on April 18, 2001.

The Channel provides its listeners 18 hours of programmes of views on current subjects, through analysis, commentaries and discussions, along with regular News Bulletins, Sports News, Business Updates and Stock Market Reports. A network of five powerful medium waves transmitters carries the NCAC programmes.

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FM 93 is a FM Radio station owned by Radio Pakistan. It is broadcast in Rawalpindi, Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Hyderabad, Faisalabad, Muzaffarabad, Mianwali, Gilgit, Guwadar, Abbottabad, Sakardu and Chitral.

FM 93 is equipped with state of the art broadcasting equipment and powerful FM Transmitters having wide area of coverage.

FM 93 is fulfilling all the requirements of the listeners with a perfect blend of Talk Shows, Discussions, Live Concerts, Sports Updates, Documentaries, Eyewitness Reports, Flights Schedules, Commentary, Impressions, Stories, Train Schedules, Traffic Updates, Interviews, Features and Weather Updates.

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FM 101 is a commercial FM Radio station owned by Radio Pakistan. It is broadcast from Karachi, Hyderabad, Lahore, Islamabad and almost 10 biggest cities of Pakistan.

FM 101 was launched simultaneously at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi on October 1st, 1998. Youthful presenters with friendly style were engaged and the phone-in facility was made available to the listeners. The transmission hours were also increased so that the channel now remains on the air daily from 6 in the morning till 4:00 am. FM 101 is now operating its transmission daily from 18 stations at Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Faisalabad, Sialkot, Hyderabad, Multan Larkana, Mithi, Bitshah, Khairpur, Kohat, Bannu, Sargodha, Mirpur and Bahawalpur. At presents FM 101 channel is the biggest FM network of Radio Pakistan.

The programme consists of music mainly of the pop variety. Western music has also been allocated two hours every day, form 3 to 4 in the afternoon and 8 to 9 in the evening. The transmission is sprinkled with information on a variety of topics including driving tips, horoscopes, sports, weather updates, culture and civilization, health and hygiene, quiz, women and kids issues, fashion and style and even stocks and business hints. Prominent personalities of different fields of life are also invited in live shows to talk to the listeners and answer their phone calls.

FM 101 also broadcasts Current Affairs issues as and when required. The listeners give their feedback and have interaction which the DJs of FM 101 channel through SMS service, e-mails and letters.

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Radio Pakistan World Service is one of two official international broadcasting stations of Pakistan.

Radio Pakistan commissioned its World Service on 21 April 1973 with the purpose to keep Pakistanis living and working abroad informed of the happenings in their mother country. To achieve this objective five transmissions are targeted in various parts of the world. One is meant for South East Asia and two each for Middle East and Europe.

The World Service broadcasts ten hours of programmes a day in Urdu and English. In these services programmes about music, dramatic features, news and general information are given. Some of them are produced on daily basis keeping the requirements of the overseas Pakistanis in the field of information like economic and political developments in Pakistan and information relating to custom regulations, trade and investment.

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Radio Pakistan External Service is one of two official international broadcasting stations of Pakistan.

Radio Pakistan was able to start its external services on regular basis on 1949. As Pakistan is strategically located and is a close neighbor of China, India, Middle Eastern countries and Central Asia, it is necessary to use Radio Pakistan and its external services as an instrument to project the country's policies in true perspective so that a message of peace and friendship is disseminated to the world specially to its neighbors.

The programmes of External Services are so designed as to project Pakistan's view point on domestic and foreign policy issues factually to remove misunderstanding if any created by some vested interests from abroad. Another special aim of these services is to disseminate knowledge about the art, culture, history, values and way of life of its people among foreign listeners in order to generate feelings of friendship, goodwill and mutual understanding which help create an environment of peace and tranquility and make co-existence possible in the region.

External Services broadcast programmes for 10 hours daily in 15 foreign languages covering Asia, Africa and Europe.