Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan launched a completely redesigned and enhanced bilingual website of Radio Pakistan with mobile streaming‚ video streaming and a You Tube channel‚ at PBC Headquarters in Islamabad on Tuesday.
The new website‚ with a fresh appearance and format‚ contains many modules including latest news‚ top news‚ headlines‚ reports‚ multimedia‚ programmes‚ bulletins in text and audio format and services for mobile phones.
The Director-General of Radio Pakistan, Murtaza Solangi, gave a comprehensive briefing to the Minister about the latest initiatives of the organization. He said despite financial and other constraints‚ concerted efforts are being made to equip Radio Pakistan with the latest technology. He said that during the last three years Radio Pakistan established community channel FM-93 besides launching current affairs channels NBS and English Channel FM-94.
He said Radio Pakistan is broadcasting its programmes in 22 languages fulfilling needs of people from Gilgit to Gwadar. About the launching of the new website‚ the Director-General said this is the fourth upgrade during the last three years. All upgrades have been done through indigenous resources without any additional expenditure.
(Source: Radio Pakistan via Media Network Weblog)
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