Peshawar Radio Station (Urdu: پشاور ریڈیو اسٹیشن) also known as Radio Pakistan Station, Peshawar is the oldest radio station in Pakistan, opening in 1935. When Abdul Qayyum Khan, a political leader of North-West Frontier Province Pakistan, went to London during the Round Table Conference of 1930-1932 he met Marconi, who had invented the wireless telegraph, and requested him to donate a radio transmitter for the N.W.F.P. Soon after the gift from Marconi arrived. The transmitter, personally engineered by Marconi, was installed in Peshawar and inaugurated by Sir Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith, the Governor of North-West Frontier Province in 1935.[1][2][3][4][5] After 14 August 1947 the station was property of Radio Pakistan.[citation needed]
10 May Attack edit
On 10 May 2023, The new building of Radio Pakistan Station, Peshawar was attacked, ransacked, and burned down by supporters of former PM Imran Khan during the 2023 Pakistani protests. The attack had led to a huge loss of historical archives, which included approximately 2,000 historic and literary books, including those by renowned Sufi poet Rehman Baba and freedom fighter Khushal Khan Khattak. And, music records of the Pashto and Hindko languages were completely destroyed.[6][7]
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References edit
- ^ Moini, Qasim A. (13 February 2017). "Pakistani radio's evolutionary journey". DAWN.COM.
- ^ a b "Radio Station Peshawar". therepublicofrumi.com.
- ^ Radio,Bombay, All India (7 August 1937). "THE INDIAN LISTENER: Vol. II. No. 16. (7th AUGUST 1937)". All India Radio,Bombay – via Google Books.
- ^ "HISTORY OF RADIO:BBC 1922 Radio in Sub Continent PBC SERVICES Radio News Reporting and Production Mass Communication". www.zeepedia.com.
- ^ Sterling, Christopher H. (2 December 2003). Encyclopedia of Radio 3-Volume Set. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-45648-1 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Radio Pakistan attack: Rare handwritten scripts, music records burnt to ashes". The Express Tribune. 16 May 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
- ^ "Miscreants of PTI ransack, set on fire Radio Pakistan building in Peshawar author". Radio Pakistan. 10 May 2023. Retrieved 14 March 2024.
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