PAKISTAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION (PBC) INTERNSHIP REPORT

BY

LARAIB AMJAD 16221516-041

B.S (HONS.)

CENTRE FOR MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT

SESSION 2016-2020

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 REPORT COMPLETION CERTIFICATE

It is certified that this internship report submitted by Ms. Laraib Amjad d/o Amjad Shuja , roll #
16221516-041, Degree program B.S (Hons.), Department of Center for Media and
Communication Studies, student of University of Gujrat Rawalpindi Campus, Pakistan is
evaluated for the course of “Internship” (MCM-403) by the following members of the Internship
Viva Voce Examination Committee.

________________________________

External Examiner

_____________ ___________________

Ms. Gul e Muqaddas

Supervisor

________________________________

Dr. Asma Zahoor

Head of Department

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE NO.

Chapter 1: Introduction 01

1.1 Mission and vision…………………………………………………………...01

1.2 History……………………………………………………………………….02
1.3 Channel ……………………………………………………………………...04
1.4 Coverage Area……………………………………………………………….05
1.5 Organization Chart…………………………………………………………..06
1.6 Department ………………………………………………………………….07

Chapter 2: Training Program 10

2.1 Learning Experience ………………………………………………………..10

2.2 Learning Outcome…………………………………………………………..12

Chapter 3: Critical Analysis 13

3.1 SWOT Analysis……………………………………………………………...13

Chapter 4: Conclusion and Recommendation15

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Internship report is essential for completion of BS degree program. It provides complete practical
knowledge of the areas that we studied during course work.

First of all, I am Thankful to Allah almighty who is merciful, He gives me strength to complete
this internship. In Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, Overall Team was very co-operative and
they helped me a lot in giving me maximum practical exposure in short span of time.

Secondly I am very thankful to Program Manager Sohail Sarwar Ilahi, Producer Faisal Javed
khan, technician Atta-Ul-Rasool saeedi, , the Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Rawalpindi III
which approved me as internee.

I would also like to thanks my teachers and college for recommending me for the internship to
gain practical knowledge and compare study material with the practical work.

LARAIB AMJAD

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 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This internship report emphasize on the work experience that I gathered as an intern in the
Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation Rawalpindi-III from 19 September 2019 to 18 November
2019. In this report I learned the basic of radio production and script writing.
The world “This is Pakistan broadcasting service which went on air at the midnight of August
14, 1947. It was started as Radio Pak on Dec 1972. PBC is the most effective and popular
medium with its varied and wide range of programs catering to all segments of society in twenty
one national, regional and seventeen foreign languages.

This report highlights how a radio news channels works, how it is managed and controlled. The
daily operations of the channel have been described as well, which ranges from collection of
news to disseminating of news or the final broadcast. In simple a full summary of the whole
process that how the news is made from where it comes from and how it is collected and who
collects it, to whom it is forwarded, where it reaches, how it is treated, what are the essential
components of news, how the news can be edited, how to translate the news in different
languages through what process it passes in to its final shape and up to the final broadcast has
been included in this report. I have divided my internship report in Different segments.

The report has been divided into four sections. The first section of the report begins with
an introduction of Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation. It gives an overview of the organization,
history of the organization and discusses the all of the PBC department.
The second section of the report presents the training program. This section gives a
description of the specific tasks performed by the internee during the course of the internship
such as News Production, News Writing, Script Writing and Editing. I explained my weekly
work in this section. It also throws light on the learning experience in the form of the skills
developed namely, writing skills, reading skills, interviewing skills, translation skills etc.
The third section of the report consists of the analyses of Pakistan Broadcasting
Corporation. The SWOT analysis is presented that throws light on the strengths and weaknesses
of the organization and the opportunities and threats to it in the market place. The fourth section
gives a brief experience of the internee in the organization. Also, recommendations to cover the
weaknesses of the organization and to deal with the threats in environment are mentioned.

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 CHAPTER-01

INTRODUCTION

The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation  also known as Voice of Pakistan, is a Pakistani public

service broadcaster. It was started as Radio Pakistan but on December 20‚ 1972 it was changed
to a statutory body governed by the Board of Directors and the Director General. Radio services
include Radio Pakistan and television operations include PTV Bolan, PTV Global, PTV
Home, PTV National, PTV News, PTV Sports and PTV World. The PBC also operates
television services for Azad Jammu & Kashmir under AJK TV. Radio and television are
broadcast through satellite, cable, FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies.

Owner :Govt. Of PAK

Type: Statutory corporation

Industry: Mass Media

Founded: 20 Dec 1972

Area served: National, available on terrestrial and cable system

Headquarter: Islamabad

Services: Radio and television

Radio Pakistan and Pakistan Television offers programming in Urdu and English on its national
radio and television broadcasts, while offering programming in 23 different regional
languages on its domestic radio service and channels. Its external services are broadcast eight
hours daily in 10 different foreign languages, covering the Middle East, Central Asia, South
Asia, the Far East Asia and parts of Eastern Europe. PBC employs commercial advertising to
supplement its federal funding on its television broadcasts. The radio service employed
commercials from its inception.

1.1Mission and vision

1. It informs the public about the policies and achievements of the government, the
social issues and challenges that are to educate the people.
2. It entertain people through music programs, feature and plays.

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 3. They try to come up with new innovative ideas innovative therebyand making the
radio the most preferred stations with largest listenership.

1.2 History

The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (Urdu: ‫ ;)پاکستان نشریات‬also known as Voice of Pakistan,

is a Pakistani public service broadcaster. It was started as Radio Pakistan but on December
20‚ 1972 it was changed to a statutory body governed by the Board of Directors and the Director
General. Radio services include Radio Pakistan and television operations include PTV
Bolan, PTV Global, PTV Home, PTV National, PTV News, PTV Sports and PTV World. The
PBC also operates television services for Azad Jammu & Kashmir under AJK TV. Radio and
television are broadcast through satellite, cable, FM, AM, and shortwave radio frequencies.

Radio Pakistan was originally known as the Pakistan Broadcasting Service at the time of its
inception on 14 August 1947. It had the honour of publicly announcing Pakistan's independence
from Britain on 13 August 1947 at 11:59 pm. Mustafa Ali Hamdani made the announcement
from Lahore in Urdu and English, while Abdullah Jan Maghmoom made the announcement
from Peshawar in Pashto.

Radio Pakistan Broadcast are in 34 languages:

Urdu, Punjabi, Sindhi, Balochi, Seraiki, Potowari, Pashto, Hindko, Kohistani, Khowar, Kashmiri
, Gojri, Burushaski, Balti, Shina, Wakhi, Hazargi, Brahvi,English,Arabic,Chinese, Dari, Persian, 
Hindi, Gujarati, Tamil, Sinhala, Nepali, Russian, Turkish and Bengali.

According to one of the pioneers of Radio Pakistan, Agha Nasir (9 February 1937 – 12 July
2016), three radio stations at Dhaka (established in 1939), Lahore (1937) and Peshawar (1935)
existed at the time of independence of Pakistan on 14 August 1947. There was no radio station in
the capital of Pakistan, Karachi in 1947. On a high priority basis, a major program of expansion
saw new stations opened at Karachi and Rawalpindi in 1948, and a new broadcasting house at
Karachi in 1950. This was followed by new stations at Hyderabad (1951), Quetta (1956), a
second station at Rawalpindi (1960) and a Receiving Centre at Peshawar (1960). In 1970,
training facilities were opened in Islamabad and a station opened at Multan.

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A 1973 law, signed by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (President and later Prime minister)
regulated Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) as "to publish, circulate, distribute and
regulate (reliable and trusted) news and information in any part of the world in any manner that
may be deemed fit".

Its one core mission states: "education, news and information to be brought to public awareness
the whole range of significant activity.". It was converted into Pakistan Broadcasting
Corporation on 20 December 1972 as a statutory body governed by the Board of Directors and
Director General. The Radio Pakistan World Service was established on 21 April 1973. The
service reached the remotest parts of Pakistan with stations at Gilgit (1977) and Skardu (1977) in
the far north and Turbat (1981) in the far southwest. From 1981 to 1982 stations and transmitters
were also established at Dera Ismail Khan, Khuzdar and Faisalabad. Radio Pakistan opened a
new broadcasting house in Khairpur on 7 May 1986, followed by relay stations in 1989
at Sibi and on 21 March 1991 in Abbottabad.

The remoter parts of the country began to receive coverage with new stations opened in the
1990s at Chitral, Loralai and Zhob. In 1997, the Federal Minister of Information inaugurated the
computerisation of the PBC news processing system and availability of the news bulletins on the
Internet in text and audio form. FM 101 Channel of PBC was launched on 1 October 1998
having stations at Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi and now this channel have nine stations
throughout Pakistan and is the biggest FM Radio network of Pakistan. In October 1998, Radio
Pakistan started FM transmission and over the period 2002–2005, new FM stations were opened
at Islamabad, Gwadar, Mianwali, Sargodha, Kohat, Bannu and Mithi.

In the last two and a half years, three new networks have been launched by PBC. On 28 August
2008, PBC launched National Broadcasting Service (NBS) the first dedicated Current Affairs
Channel. It is a combination of 5 (100 KW) AM transmitters permanently linked together to
broadcast a single national program beamed across Pakistan. Islamabad, Peshawar, Lahore,
Quetta and Karachi are the main stations generating the national programming. It is a 17 hours
programming on major national and international issues, target audience and literary and cultural
programs. PBC launched a new Community FM channel after February 2009 Station Directors
Conference. The network is called FM-93 Network with 22 stations across Pakistan. Gilgit,
Muzaffarabad, Mirpur, Abbottabad, Chitral, Bannu, Kohat, Dera Ismail Khan, Sargodha,

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Mianwali, Faislabad, Lahore, Multan, Larkana, Khairpur, Bhit Shah, Hyderabad, Mithi, Karachi
and Gwadar transmit the FM 93 network. On 14 November, PBC launched its first English
Music Channel in Islamabad called Planet 94. The network operates on FM 94. The second and
third stations of the English channel are soon to start their transmissions from Lahore and
Karachi.

1.3 Channel:

News & Current Affairs Channel

News and Current Affairs Channel was launched by Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation in
November 2000 and was converted into National Broadcasting Service in 2008. It broadcasts 13
hours of programmes from 8:00 AM to 9:00 PM daily from Islamabad and 8 hours daily from
the Provincial Headquarters.Frequencies:

 Islamabad – 1152 Khz

 Lahore – 1332 Khz
 Karachi – 639 Khz
 Quetta – 756 Khz
 Peshawar 1170 Khz
 3999.75 Mhz on Satellite Pak Sat1R

Program type

Breaking news‚ hourly news bulletins‚ live coverage of the important events, including press
conferences of the government and opposition parties. Talk shows‚ discussions/interactive
discussions‚ political and sports commentaries‚ interviews live calls and on the spot coverage.
News and Current Affairs Channel is basically working under the department of Central News
Organization of Radio Pakistan, which is head by the Director News. CNO is putting on air 123
news bulletins/broadcasts of varied duration totaling 702 minutes in 29 languages daily. These
bulletins include National‚ Regional‚ External‚ Local/City‚ Sports‚ Business and Weather
Reports. Now, the live streaming of news bulletins and programs has been introduced on
Facebook, Twitter and other social media channels. The Central News Organization has further
other branches which include National Broadcasting Service (NBS), Reporting desk, which has

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network of news gathering spreading all over the country, in addition the central reporting desk
in Islamabad. Central Monitoring Unit which monitors 14 international Radio Channels and 10
T.V Networks of varied duration totaling 9097 minutes in a day, monitoring report is prepared
every day in the morning for restricted circulation.

1.4 Coverage area

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 1.5 Organizational structure

_______________________________________________________

Director Director Director Director Director

Programme News Engineering Administration Finance

Five Five Sr Sale

Controller Controller
Deputy Deputy Executive
Content Content
Controller Controller

Program News Five Deputy Five Deputy Five Sale

Manager Manager Controller Controller Executiv

Sr News
Sr Program Manager Station
Producer Manager
Producer Administration

Producer Technicians
Producer

Presenter Reporter Staff Boy

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1.6 Departments

News department

News department is the most important department of radio news channel. Radio Pakistan has
FM 93.5 channel whose main on air time is news programs.

HR Department

HR department plays very important role in any organization. Its main function is to manage
human resource of radio pakistan. They are also responsible for timely hiring of resource and
prepare and train them according to the requirement of concern department.

Accounts Department:

Accounts department is responsible for overall financial management of the Pakistan

Broadcasting Corporation. They keep record of every financial transaction. They are responsible
for providing support to all the department in term any financial need. They keep track of
revenue and timely disclose the revenue generate from each program to higher management.

Programming Department

 Production department is involved in designing and executing different kinds of, current affairs,

entertainment and infotainment programs. Consisting of Producers, Directors, Script Writers and
Program Anchors. This department is responsible for catering the more than half of the on-air
time of PBC.

Marketing department

Marketing department is responsible for revenue generation of the radio Pakistan. Their main
responsibilities are to take advertisements from local and international customers. They are
responsible to sell on air time of PBC.

Transmission

This department decides the advertisement to content(news or programs) ratio they run a
specially designed room called MCR(master control room), where they receive the output of all
the studios in a television channel and on one side they have lined up different adds andthe MCR
in charge decides what time what content or add will go on-air.
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IT department

It consists of its professionals who are managing independent and network-based systems and
setting up and managing different servers. People are also managing some intranet and internet
based portals and websites.

Administration Department

All the kitchen and peon staff is worked under the admin department. Admin department
controls the driver’s gate keeper’s electricians of radio Pakistan. The daily routine inventory like
papers stationeries food is undergone to the admin department.

Technical Department

This department is responsible for handling the high tech equipment which allow the
transmission beam to travel to the satellite and receiving the satellite signals back. This
department also includes maintaining different high tech equipment like audio mixer and so on.

Production process

In radio Pakistan productions of programs are handled by the producers. They don’t hire the
directors. Assisting a director in the control room is typically a technical director who operates
the audio switchers.

The technical director, or td, is also responsible for coordinating the technical aspects of the
production. One or more Production Associates may be hired to help the producer and director.
Among other things, they keep notes on ongoing production needs and changes

Three Production Process

The production process is commonly broken down into preproduction, production,

andpostproduction, which some people roughly characterize as "before, during, and after."

 Pre-Production
 Production
 Post-Production

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Pre Production

This is the planning and development stage. This begins with a generation of a script. Unless a
script is developed it is difficult and there will be confusion on what type of program you are
producing. The script contains instructions and guidelines for the productions of the programs.

Production:

The second stage is production. The entire material for the programme is recorded or organized
at this stage. Selecting and positioning of the microphones, the type of tapes to be used, and
selection at various sources at sound through the mixer are all part of this stage.

Post Production:

This stage generally includes editing Sounds recorded during production and dubbing if required,
are the principal focus of post-production. Putting together the previously recorded sound and
selection of sound are important. The purpose of editing can be summarized as

 To arrange recorded material into a more logical sequence

 To remove the uninteresting. Repetitive or technically acceptable portion.
 To compress the material in time.
 For creative effect to produce new juxtaposition of speech, music. Sound.

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 CHAPTER 2

TRAINING PROGRAM

An intern is someone who works in a temporary position with an emphasis on on-the

job trainingrather than merely employment, making it similar to an apprenticeship. Interns are us
uallyuniversity students. Student internships provide opportunities for students to gain experienc
e in their field, determine if they have an interest in a particular career, create a network of
contacts, or gain university credit. Internship provide employers with free labor for low level
tasks and also the prospect of interns returning to the company after completing their education
and requiring little or no training.

Interview:
A brief interview was taken by personnel at Radio Broadcasting Corporation who were actually
Mr. Sohail Sarwar, Programme Manager at Radio Broadcasting Corporation and also responsible
for handling internship program. It was a great experience as it was my first interview ever but
the person made me feel very comfortable. That was actually a very brief discussion and she told
me to wait her mail. After A couple of days, I got a mail.

STARTING DATE ENDING DATE DEPARTMENT DURATION

19-09-2019 18-112019 RADIO 8 WEEKS

PRODUCTION AND
SCRIPT WRITTING

2.1 Learning experience

During my internship, radio Pakistan management assigned many task to me which was good
learning experience for me. I was active participant among my colleagues and performed many
task which was very good addition in my skills. My main time of internship period spent in
production department. It is the main department of any broadcasting organization and overall

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play pivot role. During my tenure of internship production department ois run by producers
Faisal javed. He taught me all the production techniques and technical skills along with
theoretical knowledge.

News production

I joined this session during my internship period where I learned how to write and edit news.
The composer prompts the news item and news production process starts. One printed copy is
provided to anchor and other is provided to production room. Then producer check the news and
call anchor to sit in studio for news recording. The producer is connected with the anchor
through mic and give instructions. The producer intimate anchor to get ready through mic and it
is a sign for anchor that news recording has started and anchor starts reading out news. The
producer through device called console adjust the audio. Various devices are attached to the
console such as anchor mic headphone, telephone line for beeper or call in between news.

The management gave me assignment to record and produce news after one week of training in
the production department. I followed the same steps which was taught by producer Faisal javed.
It went well and got appreciation from my mentor, I noted all my mistake which was highlighted
by producer and tried to rectify them.

News writing

In the internship process I worked as writing news for the news program, the assignment editor
Mrs. Farah awan assigned this work to me. By the grace of Allah and hard work of my senior
personnel I was able to write news. As I studied in my course work that news must be short,
objective and based on inverted paramid rule of writing, the same I was told here by the senior
news writer. The news story is based on three parts. These are lead or intro body and editing the
news story on page must be having a date line as well byline written. In my internship, I wrote
Urdu news.

Editing

In the training part of my internship I also learned how to edit news in the news room. News was
written by news writer and they gave me task to edit the news for correction purpose. I checked

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the news for correctness, spelling mistake and objectivity. I also learned the usage of audio
editing software such as adobe audio edition. In the adobe edition I learned following things

 How to split one news to another news

 How to remove distortion in recorded news
 How to put sounds effects in the recorded news

Script writing

Another task assigned to me was to assist script writer for writing script. It was lengthy process
and our topic was to write script on Gurdwaradarbar sahib kartarpur. My job was to collect all
information about topic then script writer wrote the script of above mentioned topic and taught
us points to be consider while writing script.

The points were

 Don’t write your radio script as if you’re reading it, write it down like it is going to be
spoken out loud
 Use your words to paint pictures
 Keep your script concise

2.2 Learning outcomes

During my internship tenure I learned a lot of things. I was able to produce news and worked as
internee producer for a very short span. I followed the same steps which was taught by my
seniors. I also worked in new writing and tried to write news as per requirement of radio
Pakistan. I tried to follow the steps which I studied during my education and which was
mentioned by my senior during my internship for news writing. I also took part in editing of
news and learned different software which was addition in my technical skills. The most learning
exposure for me was collecting data and assisting script writer on writing script of above
mentioned topic Al though I cannot learn so many in such short period but I tried to take
exposure of maximum things.

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 CHAPTER 3
SWOT ANALYSIS

3.1 Strengthen:

 Combining news reporting with analytical strengths provided by the respected social and
political commentators in Pakistan, accounts for in depth and precise Current Affairs
programs.
 PBC provides round the clock news coverage from around the world in collaboration
with their partner news sources in more than 100 countries.
 PBC considered as a trustable channel which provide accurate information and that trust
give good market.
 It is a mass medium organization whose influence and credibility is recognized nationally
and internationally.
 It has never wavered from its commitment to report the news truthfully, accurately and
without prejudice.
 PBC is always working without being effected from environmental affects.
 PBC is the defender of cultural and ethical boundaries of society in electronic media
sector.

3.2 Weakness:

 Listeners faces major distraction from advertisement aired in between the show
 Long waiting queues to connect with them by calling
 Radio Jockeys had no long lasting career.
 Cannot criticize the government policies
 Political influence
 In competent staff
 PBC mostly used the old technology.
 Communication gap between departments.
 There is not a proper training facilitate to Internees.

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  Need based trainings and outdoor visits should be conducted for official staff for their
mentally satisfaction and relaxation

3.3 Opportunity:

 Advertisement is a type of basic need for the corporations as increasing competition, so

PBC has opportunity to grasp these advertisements and increase competition.
 The opportunities are to expand globally, and add quality programs with slight change in
culture.
 Due to have strong networking PBC has opportunity to easily launched new services.
 PBC has opportunity to grasp these advertisement and increase competition.
 International growth potential due to the increasing community population across
worldwide. As population increasing so as migration of people from Pakistan to other
countries, and those foreigner are want to share and even learn our traditional rules or
culture they want a platform PBC have opportunity to provide this facility to them.

3.4 Threats:

 Continuous threat of imposition of penalties by PEMRA

 Turnover of old employees due to attractive packages offers by competitors is a big threat
for PBC.
 Low rate of advertisement offer to customers by competitors is also threats for PBC.
 Taxes on broadcasting sector are increasing day by day and that is destructive for the
PBC in shape of low profit.
 Large number of competitors in the sector is also a threat for an organization, and now a
day in television broadcasting sector there is a big market and it is difficult for PBC to
face the whole market.

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 CHAPTER 4
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
I had worked in various department of PBC by the grace of Allah and handwork of my
supervisor and other person, I have learned a lot of things related to the field of media. I am very
thankful to the University of Gujrat sub campus Rawalpindi, Mass Communication department
management and staff for giving me such high quality education which enables me, feel easy in
practical environment. Now I have the practical experience of the media sector and its
operations, so I can apply for the relevant job without hesitation.

My internship helped me to see the professional world but at the same time, there something
which I want to bring into the kind consideration of my noble organization. I felt it as a
newcomer and I hope that it will help in future prospect.

 There should be more powerful transmitter installed to cover at least for whole
Rawalpindi
 My internship was not paid, paid internship create a slight charm to the job as a internee
look for cherries on the cake in the beginning.
 There should be proper check on the intern and attendance register will do just fine

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 ‫کٹاس راج‬

‫کئی ہزار سال قدیم تاریخ کا گہوارہ چکوال پاک فوج کے نوجوانوں کی اکثریت کے حوالے سے اپنی ایک شناخت رکھتا ہے۔مشہور‬
‫ہندوؤں کا تاریخی اور مقدس مقام ”کٹاس راج “جہاں ہزاروں سال پرانی تاریخ سانس لے رہی ہے۔یہاں ہندو مذہب کے عالوہ‬
‫مسلمانوں‪ ،‬یونانیوں ‪،‬بدھ مت اور سکھوں وغیرہ کی ثقافت کا عکس بھی دکھائی دیتا ہے۔دنیا میں ہندو کی سب سے بڑی عبادت گاہ‬
‫”کٹاس راج “پاکستان کے صوبہ پنجاب سطح مرتفع پوٹھوارپر واقع ہے جس کی اونچائی تقریبا ‪ 2000‬فوٹ ہے۔جو سو سال قبل‬
‫مسیح میں لکھی جانے والی ماں بھارت میں بھی اس کا ذکر ہے۔ہندو عقائد کے مطابق جب شیو جی مہاراج کی اہلیہ ستی کا انتقال‬
‫ہوا تو مہاراج اس کے غم میں اس قدر روئے کہ ان کے آنسوؤں کی بدولت دو جشمے‪ G‬وجود میں آئےان میں سے ایک اجمیر کے‬
‫قریب پشکر میں واقع ہے جبکہ دوسرا کٹاس راج کی جیل کے صورت میں آج بھی موجود ہے۔‬
‫‪:‬کٹاس راج کی تسمیہ‬
‫تاریخی قدیم کتابوں میں درج ہے کہ شیوجی مہاراج کے مسلسل اشک بہانے سے اس عالقے کو کٹک شیل کا نام دیا گیا ہےجس‬
‫کے معنی سنسکرت میں آنسوؤں کی لڑی بنتے ہیں جو کہ وقت گزرنے کے ساتھ ساتھ کٹک شیل سے کٹاس راج میں تبدیل ہوگیا‬
‫ہے۔‬
‫‪:‬کٹاس راج کی موجودہ صورتحال‬
‫پاکستان کی تاریخی جگہ کٹاس راج بہت سی معدنیات‪ G‬سے ماالمال نمکین سلسلے میں ہے‪،‬جس میں سیمنٹ کےچار پودے ہیں۔ان‬
‫میں سے ایک تاریخی مقام سے صرف دو کلومیٹر کے فاصلے پر ہے۔قریب ہی سیمنٹ کی فیکٹریاں بہت سارے پودوں کے‬
‫ذریعے زیرزمین پانی کی سطح کو شدید طور پر کم کر رہی ہیں۔ہندو عقیدت مند ہر سال ماہ اپریل میں اس مقدس تاالب کی زیارت‬
‫کرنے آیا کرتے تھےلیکن اب کے برس یہاں سے بے مراد لوٹ جانے والے آنے والوں کو ضرور کہتے ہیں کہ کٹاس راج مر رہا‬
‫ہےاب ہم کیسے پاوترہونگے۔‬
‫اس معاملے‪ G‬کو چیف جسٹس میاں نثار ثاقب نے میڈیا رپ‪G‬ورٹ کی بنی‪GG‬اد پ‪GG‬ر اٹھای‪GG‬ا تھ‪GG‬اکہ کٹ‪GG‬اس راج کے ت‪GG‬االب ک‪GG‬ا پ‪GG‬انی س‪GG‬یمنٹ کی‬
‫فیکٹریوں کے باعث خشک ہو رہا ہے۔چکوال کے ڈپٹی کمشنر نے ع‪GG‬دالت ک‪GG‬و ای‪GG‬ک رپ‪GG‬ورٹ میں بتای‪GG‬اکے پنج‪GG‬اب ماحولی‪GG‬اتی تحف‪GG‬ظ‬
‫ایجنسی ”اے پی اے“ نے ماحولیاتی قوانین کی خالف ورزی کرنے پر سیمنٹ فیکٹری کے خالف قانونی کارروائی کا آغاز کی‪GG‬ا ہے۔‬
‫پھر انتظامیہ نے صنعتی سرگرمیوں کی وجہ سےہونے والے ماحولیاتی خطرات کا سنجیدہ نظریہ لیتے ہوئےان دو بخت پر دب‪GG‬اؤکم‬
‫کرنے کے لیے ‪ 14‬میں سے تین ٹیوب ویلو کو بند کرنے کا حکم دیا ہے‬

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‫عاصم اظہرایوارڈ کی تقریب میں کشمیر کی آواز بن گئے‬
‫پاکستانی اداکار و گلوکار عاصم اظہرایوارڈ کی تقریب میں کشمیریوں کی آواز بنے جس پر ان کےمداحوں نے انہیں خوب سراہا‬

‫ہم ایوارڈز“کہ میلے میں جہاں دیگر ستاروں نے اپنے اسٹائل اور پرفارمنس کی بدولت مداحوں سے خوب داد سمیٹی وہی ”‬
‫اداکاروگلوکار عاصم اظہر کشمیر کی آواز بن گئے۔‬
‫عاصم اظہر نے جو لباس زیب تن کیا اس پر” آئی لو کشمیر“ لکھا تھا جبکہ بازو پر کشمیر کا جھنڈا باندھ رکھا تھا جو کہ اس اقدام‬
‫کو خوب سراہا جارہا ہے۔‬

‫پی ایس ایل کا خود گالنا گھونٹں‬

‫سی لنکا‪،‬افغانستان اور اب بنگلہ دیش کی لیگز تباہ ہوچوکیں اورخدخشہ یہ ہے کہ کہیں پی ایس ایل کے ساتھ بھی ایسا نہ ہو جائے‬
‫آپ اپنے باغ میں ایک پودا لگائیں اسے روز پانی اور خوب دیکھ بھال کریں پھرچند برسوں میں جب وہ درخت بن کر پھل دینے‬
‫لگے تو خود بھی اسے کا ٹ دیں تو کیا آپ سے بڑا کوئی بیوقوف اس دنیا میں ہوگا ؟ بدقسمتی سے پی ایس ایل کے ساتھ ایسا ہی ہو‬
‫رہا ہے‪ ،‬ہم اس میں صرف پی بی سی کو ذمہ دار قرار نہیں دے سکتےیقینا فرنچائز ذکی بھی غلطیاں ہیں جس کا نقصان صرف اور‬
‫صرف پاکستانی کرکٹ کو ہوگا‪ ،‬مجھے ملک اور پی سی بی کے حاالت میں بہت سی چیزیں ایک جیسی نظر آ رہی ہیں‪ ،‬وزیراعظم‬
‫عمران خان انتہائی ایماندار انسان اور ملکی مسائل حل کرنا چاہتے ہیں لیکن ان کی ٹیم کے بعض لوگ اہل نہ ہونے کے باوجود اہم‬
‫عہدوں پر موجود ہیں جس سے معامالت بگڑ رہے ہیں‬
‫ایسا ہی کرکٹ بورڈ میں بھی ہے‪ ،‬احسان مانی جوکہ بہت ایماندار شخص ہیں مگر بدقسمتی سے انہوں نے اپنی ذمہ داریاں دوسروں‬
‫میں بانٹ دیں‪ ،‬ساتھ ہی ٹیم بھی اچھی نہ بنا سکے جس کی وجہ سے معامالت میں بہتری نہیں آ رہی‪ ،‬وسیم خان یقینا کام کرنا جانتے‬
‫ہوں گے مگر انہیں پی سی بی کے بعض مالزمین نے” ہائی جیک “ کر لیا اور وہ انہی کے مشوروں پر چل رہیےہیں‪ ،‬بورڈ کے‬
‫معامالت نہ سنبھلنے کا سب سے بڑا نقصان پی ایس ایل کو ہو رہا ہے‬
‫اس سے پہلے سری لنکا‪ ،‬افغانستان اور اب بنگلہ دیش کی لیگز تباہ ہوچکیں اور بدقسمتی سےخد شہ یہی ہے کہ کہیں خدا نہ خاستہ‬
‫پی ایس ایل کے ساتھ بھی ایسا نہ ہو جائے‪ ،‬بظاہر سب سے بڑا مسئلہ بینک گادنٹی کا نظر آتا ہے‪ ،‬یہ بات سب کے سامنے ہے کہ‬
‫ملک میں کاروباری حاالت ان دنوں اتنے اچھے نہیں فرینچائز ز بھی اس سسٹم کا حصہ ہں اس وقت بورڈ اور فرنچائز میں اعتماد‬
‫کی فضا کم ےلہذابعض نیوٹرل پروفیشنلز کی خدمات بھی لی جاسکتی ہیں ‪ ،‬طویل عرصے بعد پاکستان نے پی ایس ایل کی صورت‬
‫میں ایک ایسا برینڈڈ بنایا جس پر ہم فخر کر سکتے ہیں خدا اسے تباہی سے بچائں۔‬

‫رابی پیرزادہ کا وزیراعظم سے شیخ رشید کو برطرف کرنے کا مطالبہ‬

‫کراچی‪ :‬پاکستانی گلوکار رابی پیرزادہ نے ثانیہ تیزگام پر اظہار افسوس کرتے ہوئےوزیراعظم سے وزیر ریلوے شیخ رشید کو‬
‫عہدے سے برطرف کرنے کا مطالبہ کردیا‬
‫گزشتہ روز رحیم یار خان کے قریب پیش آنے والے ٹرین حادثے میں ‪ 47‬افراد جان کی بازی ہار گئے تھے جبکہ معتدد افراد زخمی‬
‫ہیں۔ثانیہ تیزگام پر نا صرف پورا پاکستان سوگ میں ہے بلکہ فنکار برادری نے ہی نہایت افسوس کا اظہار کیا ہے۔‬
‫گلوکارہ رابی پیر زادہ نے ثانیہ تیزگام پر غم و غصے کا اظہار کرتے ہوئے کہاعمران خان جب اپوزیشن میں تھے تو اس وقت جب‬
‫بھی کوئی ٹرین حادثہ ہوتا تھا تو عمران خان کا مطالبہ ہوتا تھاوزیر ریلوے کا استعفی۔اور اب تقریبا ‪ 80‬کے قریب ریلوے کے‬
‫استعفی نہیں آیا۔‬
‫ٰ‬ ‫حادثات ہوچکے ہیںلیکن ابھی تک‬
‫رابی پیرزادہ نے مزید لکھا آج میرا دل رو رہا ہے جو کچھ اس ٹرین کے مسافروں کے ساتھ ہوا ہے۔جب میں عمران خان سے سوال‬
‫کرتی ہوں آپ لوگوں کو برا لگتا ہے کیا حاکم وقت کی ذمہ داری نہیںکہ شیخ رشید کو برطرف کریں۔‬
‫یا یہ واقعہ بھی ہمیشہ کی طرح دبا دیا جائے گا‬

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