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 August 14 1947 the station was property of Radio Pakistan.

May 9 Attack

On May 9, 2023, The new building of Radio Pakistan Station, Peshawar was attacked and burned down by supporters of former PM Imran Khan during the 2023 Imran Khan arrest protests. History of original recorded Audios from programs and interviews of famous personalities like founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah, Queen Elizabeth, Lady Diana, Jehangir Khan, and other were burnt down. Music records of Pushto and Hindko languages were completely destroyed. Even Marconi's gift to the people of Peshawar the radio transmitter was destroyed during the protesters attack.

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References

  1. ↑ Moini, Qasim A. (February 13, 2017). "Pakistani radio's evolutionary journey". DAWN.COM.
  2. 1 2 "Radio Station Peshawar". therepublicofrumi.com.
  3. ↑ Radio,Bombay, All India (August 7, 1937). "THE INDIAN LISTENER: Vol. II. No. 16. (7th AUGUST 1937)". All India Radio,Bombay – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "HISTORY OF RADIO:BBC 1922 Radio in Sub Continent PBC SERVICES Radio News Reporting and Production Mass Communication". www.zeepedia.com.
  5. ↑ Sterling, Christopher H. (December 2, 2003). "Encyclopedia of Radio 3-Volume Set". Routledge – via Google Books.
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