Pushto service on FM 101 demanded

Published February 18, 2003

PESHAWAR, Feb 17: District Bar Association has urged the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation to start Pushto language transmission on FM 101 radio channel, Peshawar centre. 

The demand was made in a meeting of the association on Tuesday, which was presided over by its president Sher Afgan Khattak advocate. 

Through a resolution it asked the government to pay attention to the Pushto language, which it said was being ignored in spite of being spoken by 40 million people across the country.