Increasing Exposure: Radio Free Asia to cover Balochistan

US Congressman says Baloch people would be “receptive to RFA broadcasts in their own language.

US Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, who had recently introduced a controversial legislation on Balochistan, asked Radio Free Asia (RFA) to report on and broadcast in Balochistan to better equip them with the current news. According to a press release issued by his office, Representative Rohrabacher wrote a letter to Radio Free Asia’s president, saying that the Baloch people would be “receptive to RFA broadcasts in their own language and the increased exposure to accurate and objective news would no doubt be to our and their great benefit.”Rohrabacher, who is also Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee for Oversight and Investigations, told the RFA.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 23^rd, 2012.