Pakistan

Radio broadcast: News bulletins in local languages launched

The launching ceremony was held at Abbottabad Radio Station on Wednesday.

Our Correspondent September 20, 2012

ABBOTABAD:

News bulletins in three local languages have been launched from Radio Pakistan Abbottabad station.

The launching ceremony was held at Abbottabad Radio Station on Wednesday.

While speaking on the occasion, Radio Pakistan Director General Murtaza Solangi said the launch of news bulletins in Gojri, Pashto and Hindko languages will help highlight the problems of the local communities.

Solangi said that although media has flourished in the country over the years, but Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation was the only organisation that enjoyed the status of “mothering” all these media organisations and presenting programmes in 22 different languages.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 20^th, 2012.

COMMENTS (2)

chandran | 12 years ago | Reply

why not hindi and sanskrit?

Khurram Malik | 12 years ago | Reply My mother speaks Hindko and my father speaks Punjabi of Attock and Chakwal and throughout my life i am not been able to understand what is an exact difference in Hindko and the language spoken in Upper Punjab. Even when the Coke Studio Chakwal group sang the songs in the past months at first i thought they are singing in Hindko but later found out it is a dielect of Punjabi of Chakwal. So yes I can differentiate clearly in Pushto but cannot distinguish in first go the difference in Hindko and Punjabi of Upper Punjab and i think that is the case with many of the speakers of Potohar and Hazara regions. .

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