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First Pashto TV channel to go on air on July 1
The first Pashto satellite TV channel AVT Khyber will start its test transmission from July 1, 2004. In the first phase the Islamabad based Pashto TV channel will telecast 12 hours transmission in Pashto language including musical shows, plays, serials, comedy shows, news and current affairs programmes and documentaries and updates on the cultural, social and political aspects of Pashtun society. Khyber TV programmes can be watched on the same frequency on which formerly PTV National was available. The launching of such a programmes was a cherished dream of Pakhtuns. Pakhtuns have thousands years old social, cultural and linguistic heritage but so far no one has projected their culture in its true and realistic colours. It is hoped that AVT Khyber will fill this gape. Some people suppose that Pakhtuns can only shoot and fight, that is true because they are a martial race, but no one has tried to peep into their soft and romantic hearts. They have their own music, traditional dances and their own code of lifeaPakhtunwali. The social and literary circles have expressed their hope that AVT Khyber will present Pashtun nation as they are in their love romances and legends. According to the latest information at present AVT Khyber programmes can be watched in Pakistan, Afghanistan, central Asia and Middle East while they will be later on extended to Pashtuns living in Europe and America. AVT Khyber has its offices in Peshawar, Quetta, Lahore and Karachi. The TV has also arranged special programmes for those Pakhtuns who are living abroad.
source: www.abntv.com/htowndetail. asp?cityid=8&city=Peshawar
FYI AsiaSat 3S footprint is only for Asia & Middle East…
Good news!!
Pushto channel
http://statesman.com.pk/Editorial/edit3.htm
Apart from the usual rhetoric in praise of promoting regional culture, the launching of Pushto-language Asia Television Khyber Channel, still in the phase of test transmissions, will be widely hailed by the lovers of this language in NWFP as well as out of it. As the chief executive of the newly launched channel, Jawad Hamid Raja, said in his interview with BBC, the AVT Khyber would focus on the promotion of Pushto language, literature, culture and music. Run by the Islamabad branch of Asia Vision Company, the channel will be supervised by the versatile artist Firdaus Jamal. Peshawar and Quetta centres of Pakistan Television had, for more than a quarter century, been catering to the tastes of Pushto-speaking viewers in NWFP and Balochistan but the stations were under a visibly suffocating influence of the highly westernised Islamabad-based Urdu-speaking directors. In 24 hours the total time devoted to regional languages came up to about 60 minutes (from 5pm to 6pm) and this included the heavy doses of pro-government propaganda stuff dished out in the name of current affairs programmes like “Nun Saba”.
Illiterate viewers in the hinterland of rural Frontier hardly award any marks to the flood of Urdu programmes dominated by the pro-Establishment writers like Anwar Maqsood and Ashfaq Ahmad. This explains why viewers in remote and far-flung villages tend to switch off their television sets after seven in the evening. In his long and somewhat tiring introductory lectures, Firdaus Jamal has optimistically been promising a bonanza of entertainment to inquisitive viewers. Instead of depending upon the old productions of PTV, the new channel should try to evolve a peculiar identity of its own by preparing something altogether original and creative. It will be in originality and creativity that the justification for a new TV channel precisely lies.
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I am really glad that pashtuns finally have their own channel but what is with the regional bashing. If you guys are sick and tired of urdu programs then quite frankly just move to afghanistan to live among your bretheren. URDU is the OFFICIAL language of pakistan therefore all the channels both govt and private owned are dominated by urdu programming. If you don't like it, than go home and screw yourself.
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Pagal.
cant wait till it hits our end... innit britsy?
Cool....the proper transmision is gona start in few hours today...cant wait.......
The GOooooooOd thing for me is… 
Our Cable Operator in Kabul started Showing it Since Ysterday 
Dera maza kai kana che Khpal khalak Goaray and Awray 
aww nekbakhta…
taso da wakht na makhkay takhtai…
awo kana…qasam zra may dasey khushala she che kala Pashto pa tv wawram…
No need to rub it in guys. We've still got to wait a few months till its comes to us.
i have 2 learn pashto to understand what she's saying...
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*Originally posted by Brit Chick: *
No need to rub it in guys. We've still got to wait a few months till its comes to us.
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Poor Guys, another 4 months.
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i have 2 learn pashto to understand what she's saying...
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who u talkin about?
Re: Update on Khyber TV
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