AJK Radio Stations Helping Resolve Community Conflicts

Aurangzaib Khan

When a deadly earthquake struck the northern Pakistan in 2005, the families living in Kamsar in AJK (Pakistan-administered Kashmir) had to leave after a landslide destroyed their settlements. Seven years since the earthquake, they face another eviction, this time forced.

AJK Radio Stations Helping Resolve Community Conflicts

By Adnan Rehmat

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day and many countries across the globe are cheering their good fortune at having environments where their media operates mostly without fear or favor. Pakistan is not one of them. At least 118 journalists have been killed in Pakistan since 1947, no less than 80 since 2000 and at least 15 in the last 15 months. The staggering average for the last 12 years comes to a journalist killed every 50 days. Virtually all were killed for their work. How did it come to this?

How Media Reports Terrorism Related Conflict in Pakistan

Islamabad: Half of the terrorism related stories published in key national newspapers originate from the border region in Pakistan’s northwest, says a new study released by a local media development organisation.

“Almost 50% of terrorism stories come from FATA and Khyber Pakhtnkhwa” says the study “How Pakistani Media reports terrorism related conflict” conducted by Intermedia Pakistan, an Islamabad based media development organisation focusing on training, advocacy and research on media issues.

Pakistani FM Radio Sector to Establish Platform to Promote Professionalism and Local Community Development Agenda

About 40 licensed independent FM radio stations in Pakistan have decided to establish a formal platform to represent the radio broadcast sector’s interests and to promote greater professionalism and an enhanced and prioritized focus on local communities to become the premier voice of the people across Pakistan.

MANZAR Radio Magazine: Local Voices, National Audience

In April 2011, six radio stations based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan collaborated to create a radio programme that would bring regional voices and issues to a larger national audience.

Manzar is that programme. A radio magazine, Manzar aims to professionalize the radio sector through exchange of content from remote regions that we seldom get to see or hear about.

Congress of FATA media leadership: Training of Trainers for press club presidents to report safely and document attacks on media

Islamabad consensus on mainstreaming of FATA into Pakistani media legal framework

ISLAMABAD: Compliance with Articles 19 and 19A of the Constitution guaranteeing freedom of expression for citizens and access to information should be ensured in the troubled Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as an intrinsic part of the political reforms being promoted there and the president of Pakistan needs to ensure this since he has the jurisdictional authority there.

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