Pakistani FM Radio Sector to Establish Platform to Promote Professionalism and Local Community Development Agenda

About 40 licensed independent FM radio stations in Pakistan have decided to establish a formal platform to represent the radio broadcast sector’s interests and to promote greater professionalism and an enhanced and prioritized focus on local communities to become the premier voice of the people across Pakistan.

MANZAR Radio Magazine: Local Voices, National Audience

In April 2011, six radio stations based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan collaborated to create a radio programme that would bring regional voices and issues to a larger national audience.

Manzar is that programme. A radio magazine, Manzar aims to professionalize the radio sector through exchange of content from remote regions that we seldom get to see or hear about.

Congress of FATA media leadership: Training of Trainers for press club presidents to report safely and document attacks on media

Islamabad consensus on mainstreaming of FATA into Pakistani media legal framework

ISLAMABAD: Compliance with Articles 19 and 19A of the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of expression for citizens and access to information should be ensured in the troubled Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as an intrinsic part of the political reforms being promoted there and the president of Pakistan needs to ensure this since he has the jurisdictional authority there.

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