*”A strong and robust radio can better protect ideological boundaries of the country.”*
*Contribute to the survival of Radio Pakistan.*
*Radio Pakistan listening has almost shifted to smartphones, social media platforms,
wrist watches and automobiles. Please pay for the service as was paid for Broadcast
Receiver License Fee in Pakistan till 70’s*
Yes, there was a time, more than half a century ago, when apart from print media, Radio
Pakistan was the only source of information, education and entertainment. There was no TV
channel nor was there any mobile device or social media. At that time , your forefathers used to
get a license(Broadcast Receiver Licence) for listening to the Radio anywhere they would like
whether in the drawing rooms, bedrooms or in the fields while ploughing, sowing seeds,
harvesting, or thrashing crops۔
The past has gone and never been retained with plenty of changes now taking place daily in
electronic media. During first decade of the year 2000 and prior to it in late 90’s, a number of
private TV channels in addition to both government controlled PTV/ FM radio channels in
government as well as private sectors geared up telecasting and broadcasting via terrestrial
and satellite transmitters which brought up a drastic change in main electronic media spectrum .
Despite a remarkable progress and improvement in print, electronic and social media, Radio
Pakistan, still , is playing a very important role in the national and international affairs. Besides
intertainment and education , it provides latest sociopolitical /socioeconomic developments
taking place in the country and around the world through it’s local as well as external networks in
more than 27 languages. Since technology has developed manifolds, Radio can be now be
listened to even on mobile devices, wrest watches and in vehicles moving on the roads. General
public has to pay taxes for getting facilities. Radio is one of the facilities being provided to the
general public and it genuinely deserves to be financed by the state in line with the pattern
evolved for financial support of Pakistan Television Corporation.
Sardar Alizai
