KARACHI: Broadcasts from Pakistan are soon to be heard over the British Broadcasting Corporation’s home service, it was … learned in Karachi on Thursday [Sept 1]. The BBC which had not previously been able to make direct broadcasts from the Dominion has now completed successful experiments for relaying programmes by telephone line from Karachi to London. The first broadcast is to be made by the BBC’s top ranking commentator, Wynford Vaughan Thomas, when he visits Pakistan on an eight-day round the world flight on Sept 21. It is expected that the Pakistani Ministers [will] take part in the broadcast. Now that a link has been established Pakistan news and views can be broadcast not only to Britain but through London to the whole world. Pakistan’s high power transmitter which would be able to make direct broadcasts is due to go into operation…. .

[According to news agencies from Wash­ington,] President Truman said today [Sept 1] that he hoped that the “war of nerves” between the Communist and democratic Governments of the world would end in the “surrender” of the Communist Governments.

Published in Dawn, September 2nd, 2024