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Posts Tagged ‘BBC Urdu’

BBC Urdu news Pakistan Live

By Guest Blogger • May 25th, 2011 • Category: Misc

Pakistanis trust and love BBC. Whatever the propaganda is, Pakistanis trust and like the word of the BBC, and they routinely access it, and according to the media reports, online BBC Urdu is the most accessed website by the Pakistanis, more than jang or news or any other Pakistani newspaper.
The BBC is the largest broadcasting [...]



Clear as Mud

By Chris Cork • Mar 28th, 2010 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look

There is this prominent female party-political spokesperson. She has beautiful diction and enunciation, speaks with admirable clarity and most of the time what she says is completely incomprehensible – especially any words uttered after the phrase ‘Let me be clear.’ Watching her extemporise on the bangle-gymnast-drone-sugar controversy one night last week it was possible to [...]



How Much VOA Pays to GEO To Be on Prime Time?

By Maria Sultan • Nov 30th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Daily from 7:30 to 8:00, Voice of America is telecasted from country’s leading news channel GEO Television Network. GEO, which airs the programs very selectively and it’s very expensive to run even an advertisement of few seconds, run VOA on daily basis.
It’s hard to believe and even imagine that GEO itself buys the VOA and [...]