ISLAMABAD -Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhrysaid on Friday that the national public service broadcaster earns onlyRs200 million while Rs5.4 billion is spent on it by the federal government.
Sharing his experience of visiting the Radio Pakistan Museum, the infominister told the parliament that there was no alternative but to introducereforms in the institution.
“The government is paying Rs5.4 billion to Radio Pakistan whereas its ownincome is only Rs200 million,” said Fawad, regretting that the nationalbroadcaster “imports everything from abroad”.
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He revealed that the PTI government plans to run the affairs of bothPakistan Television (PTV) and Radio Pakistan through one board of directors.
