RAWALPINDI: President Ayub Khan will inaugurate here tomorrow [Jan 15] the Central Television Institute-cum-television pilot station which is the first of its kind in this part of the world. The institute is equipped with a full fledged studio, video tape-recorder and five kw transmitter. At this institute, trainees from East and West Pakistan are undergoing a six-month course in programming and engineering.

The equipment of the institute is also being utilised for running a pilot service which will start transmitting three-hour programme from March 23 this year. Between January 15 and March 23 one-hour film programme with two news bulletins, one in Bengali and one in Urdu, will be transmitted. This institute may serve the needs for training in television of the neighbouring countries and has been included in the current Five-Year Plan.

A spokesman of the Pakistan Government said here today that a Television Corporation would be set up to run a network of TV stations which would start functioning before the end of the current Plan period in both Wings of the country.

The spokesman was giving the details at a Press briefing about the TV project in Pakistan, which is being executed with foreign assistance and collaboration.

Mr Guentner Schall, West German Ambassador, who was also present at the briefing, expressed his full satisfaction over the arrangements.

Published in Dawn, January 15th, 2017