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Peshawar, Feb.7 (ANI): Radio Pakistan has decided to discontinue the
Voice of America's (VOA) Pushto-language programmes following a threat
from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).


The VOA launched its Pushto-language radio station, 'Deeva Radio', in
2009, targeting audience in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
and other tribal areas.


"The Radio Pakistan central management ended its agreement with the
VOA in light of the terror threats and political pressure, as many
local listeners went to the (print) media to force the government
to cancel the agreement," The Daily Times quoted a senior producer at
Radio Pakistan Peshawar, as saying.

"The Taliban and other anti-American groups in the country threatened
to bomb the Radio Pakistan Peshawar premises if the station continued
airing Deeva Radio programmes," he said on conditions of anonymity.

However, Radio Pakistan Director General Murtaza Solangi said the
broadcast was cancelled on mutual agreement between the state
broadcaster and the VOA. (ANI)

On Feb 7, 12:48*pm, " wrote:
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/02/07/r...s-voas-pushto-...

Peshawar, Feb.7 (ANI): Radio Pakistan has decided to discontinue the
Voice of America's (VOA) Pushto-language programmes following a threat
from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The VOA launched its Pushto-language radio station, 'Deeva Radio', in
2009, targeting audience in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
and other tribal areas.

"The Radio Pakistan central management ended its agreement with the
VOA in light of the terror threats and political pressure, as many
local listeners went to the (print) media to force the government
to cancel the agreement," The Daily Times quoted a senior producer at
Radio Pakistan Peshawar, as saying.

"The Taliban and other anti-American groups in the country threatened
to bomb the Radio Pakistan Peshawar premises if the station continued
airing Deeva Radio programmes," he said on conditions of anonymity.

However, Radio Pakistan Director General Murtaza Solangi said the
broadcast was cancelled on mutual agreement between the state
broadcaster and the VOA. (ANI)

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

On 2/8/2010 3:05 AM, wrote:

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

Agreed considering how much hatred the Indian government has for the the
Pakistani government. I doubt if the US would shut down a station over a
threat from the Taliban.

And they could simply broadcast from Afghanistan into NW Pakistan
without much trouble.

On Feb 8, 7:43*pm, Shawn Patrick wrote:
On 2/8/2010 3:05 AM, wrote:

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

Agreed considering how much hatred the Indian government has for the the
Pakistani government. I doubt if the US would shut down a station over a
threat from the Taliban.

And they could simply broadcast from Afghanistan into NW Pakistan
without much trouble.

Kim Elliot does state it is true, but only the Pushto MW transmission
directed at NW Frontier Province. The Peshawar Urdu language FM is not
affected. As our long time contributor RHF has stated last year, Radio
Deewa had a program on 9370 KHz. How would the Taliban know where it
comes from?

wrote:
On Feb 8, 7:43 pm, Shawn wrote:
On 2/8/2010 3:05 AM, wrote:

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

Agreed considering how much hatred the Indian government has for the the
Pakistani government. I doubt if the US would shut down a station over a
threat from the Taliban.

And they could simply broadcast from Afghanistan into NW Pakistan
without much trouble.

Kim Elliot does state it is true, but only the Pushto MW transmission
directed at NW Frontier Province. The Peshawar Urdu language FM is not
affected. As our long time contributor RHF has stated last year, Radio
Deewa had a program on 9370 KHz. How would the Taliban know where it
comes from?

RDF?

On Feb 9, 8:54*am, dave wrote:
wrote:
On Feb 8, 7:43 pm, Shawn *wrote:
On 2/8/2010 3:05 AM, wrote:

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

Agreed considering how much hatred the Indian government has for the the
Pakistani government. I doubt if the US would shut down a station over a
threat from the Taliban.

And they could simply broadcast from Afghanistan into NW Pakistan
without much trouble.

Kim Elliot does state it is true, but only the Pushto MW transmission
directed at NW Frontier Province. The Peshawar Urdu language FM is not
affected. As our long time contributor RHF has stated last year, Radio
Deewa had a program on 9370 KHz. How would the Taliban know where it
comes from?

RDF?- Hide quoted text -

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And how would one RDF a signal on HF coming from a relay station
thousands of miles away?

Shawn Patrick wrote:

Agreed considering how much hatred the Indian government has for the the
Pakistani government. I doubt if the US would shut down a station over a
threat from the Taliban.


What about a deal with the Taliban?

On Feb 8, 3:05*am, wrote:
On Feb 7, 12:48*pm, " wrote:





http://news.oneindia.in/2010/02/07/r...s-voas-pushto-...

Peshawar, Feb.7 (ANI): Radio Pakistan has decided to discontinue the
Voice of America's (VOA) Pushto-language programmes following a threat
from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The VOA launched its Pushto-language radio station, 'Deeva Radio', in
2009, targeting audience in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
and other tribal areas.

"The Radio Pakistan central management ended its agreement with the
VOA in light of the terror threats and political pressure, as many
local listeners went to the (print) media to force the government
to cancel the agreement," The Daily Times quoted a senior producer at
Radio Pakistan Peshawar, as saying.

"The Taliban and other anti-American groups in the country threatened
to bomb the Radio Pakistan Peshawar premises if the station continued
airing Deeva Radio programmes," he said on conditions of anonymity.

However, Radio Pakistan Director General Murtaza Solangi said the
broadcast was cancelled on mutual agreement between the state
broadcaster and the VOA. (ANI)

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

As opposed to what truth.......the manufactured and made up twisted
truths broadcast by our own media?

On Mar 2, 1:01*pm, " wrote:
On Feb 8, 3:05*am, wrote:





On Feb 7, 12:48*pm, " wrote:

http://news.oneindia.in/2010/02/07/r...s-voas-pushto-....

Peshawar, Feb.7 (ANI): Radio Pakistan has decided to discontinue the
Voice of America's (VOA) Pushto-language programmes following a threat
from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The VOA launched its Pushto-language radio station, 'Deeva Radio', in
2009, targeting audience in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
and other tribal areas.

"The Radio Pakistan central management ended its agreement with the
VOA in light of the terror threats and political pressure, as many
local listeners went to the (print) media to force the government
to cancel the agreement," The Daily Times quoted a senior producer at
Radio Pakistan Peshawar, as saying.

"The Taliban and other anti-American groups in the country threatened
to bomb the Radio Pakistan Peshawar premises if the station continued
airing Deeva Radio programmes," he said on conditions of anonymity.

However, Radio Pakistan Director General Murtaza Solangi said the
broadcast was cancelled on mutual agreement between the state
broadcaster and the VOA. (ANI)

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

As opposed to what truth.......the manufactured and made up twisted
truths broadcast by our own media?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I don't think it was meant "as opposed to" or 'in comparison with" any
other truth. He is simply saying that an Indian news source may well
have some bias (and thus should be taken with a grain of salt) when
reporting on anything related to Pakistan. Do YOU trust an Indian
news source when it relates to news about a sworn enemy? I'd be
skeptical.

That being said, it's pretty hard to find an unbiased news source
anywhere these days. Maybe it has been true forever, but I cannot be
sure, not having lived that long (yet) ;-)

Bruce

On Mar 2, 4:15*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 2, 1:01*pm, " wrote:





On Feb 8, 3:05*am, wrote:

On Feb 7, 12:48*pm, " wrote:

http://news.oneindia.in/2010/02/07/r...s-voas-pushto-...

Peshawar, Feb.7 (ANI): Radio Pakistan has decided to discontinue the
Voice of America's (VOA) Pushto-language programmes following a threat
from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

The VOA launched its Pushto-language radio station, 'Deeva Radio', in
2009, targeting audience in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP)
and other tribal areas.

"The Radio Pakistan central management ended its agreement with the
VOA in light of the terror threats and political pressure, as many
local listeners went to the (print) media to force the government
to cancel the agreement," The Daily Times quoted a senior producer at
Radio Pakistan Peshawar, as saying.

"The Taliban and other anti-American groups in the country threatened
to bomb the Radio Pakistan Peshawar premises if the station continued
airing Deeva Radio programmes," he said on conditions of anonymity.

However, Radio Pakistan Director General Murtaza Solangi said the
broadcast was cancelled on mutual agreement between the state
broadcaster and the VOA. (ANI)

Since this is sourced from an Indian web site, how truthful is it?

As opposed to what truth.......the manufactured and made up twisted
truths broadcast by our own media?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I don't think it was meant "as opposed to" or 'in comparison with" any
other truth. *He is simply saying that an Indian news source may well
have some bias (and thus should be taken with a grain of salt) when
reporting on anything related to Pakistan. *Do YOU trust an Indian
news source when it relates to news about a sworn enemy? *I'd be
skeptical.

That being said, it's pretty hard to find an unbiased news source
anywhere these days. *Maybe it has been true forever, but I cannot be
sure, not having lived that long (yet) ;-)

Bruce- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

The truth is definetily out there... BBC is still remarkably
quite objective, despite all the shenanigans that it has been
experiencing lately. R.Netherlands is another good source with very
minor ethnocentric tendencies, but it is so negligible in comparison
to the majority of of broadcasts on HF as well as the internet and
other mass media.