Listeners Wait for 'already-approved' Mirpur FM Radio in Azad Kashmir
By Altaf Hamid Rao - Pakistan Times Kashmir Bureau Chief

MIRPUR: Radio listeners, especially the music lovers, in Mirpur, besides other parts of Azad Kashmir are anxiously waiting for the transmission of the already-approved AJK’s FM Radio in Mirpur.

With the installation of the already-approved FM-101 radio mast since over last one year at the premises of the broadcasting house of Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur, the concerned management had declared that the FM Radio Mirpur would go on air shortly with programs, flavoured with the taste and interest of listeners of all ages, but the project could not be launched so far despite passage of over last one year, spreading a wave of anxiousness for the awaiting regular radio listeners.

To be located in the premises of Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur station, transmitter of the proposed FM radio is anxiously awaited for installation to bring on air the attractive programs of entertainment.

Requisite studios for the FM Radio are proposed to be set up at the Broadcasting House, now beaming signal of magnificent taste to a vast terrain in and around the fast developing city of Mirpur. FM Radio equipment is reaching its site in the near future, reliable sources always said whenever asked about the execution of the continued delaying project. The 192-feet high FM Radio mast has already been installed as a preamble to this project.

The programs cue-sheet shall be indexed with a variety of entertainment as well as info programs, sources informed 'Pakistan Times'. Azad Kashmir Radio Mirpur now on air beams its uninterrupted and regular transmissions with its 100 KV strength with a coverage of a vast area of the country besides the occupied Jammu Kashmir.

Meanwhile, Mirpur Radio station has launched various special attractive programs of current affairs of the interest of its listeners including a program of youths entitled 'Shaheen' in addition to a program, based on Radio Press conference depicting the problems of the masses and their instant solutions, poetry, as well as an exclusive program for children entitled 'Honahaar' on every Sunday, 'Fouji Bhaiyoon Ka Program', 'Mefil-e-Milaad', 'Mazakarat', Interviews, program for women folk titled 'Ghar Aanghen' and Radio Press conference in the last week of every month, besides the program highlighting problems of the overseas Pakistanis and their dependents in the country.

Since its inception on September 30, 2002, the AJK Radio Mirpur is successfully bringing its daily formal transmissions on air comprising fabulous infotainment gala in Gojri, Pahari, Kashmiri and Urdu languages plus the news and current affairs programs in the national as well as the regional/local languages.●