An 18-day course on ‘Local Reporting and Training for Trainers’ organised by Radio Pakistan in collaboration with Duetche Welle (Voice of Germany) Akademie concluded here at National Broadcasting House, PBC Headquarters, on Friday.
The courses, attended by 24 journalists, producers and engineers from all over the country, were conducted by senior experts from the Deutche Welle Akademie, including Jutta Vom Hofe, Marc Seidel and Florian Weigand.
Speaking on the occasion, Radio Pakistan Director General Murtaza Solangi said PBC had been focusing on human resource development in the department. “We might have financial constraints, but are highly rich in human resources and continue to further develop it in collaboration with international partners like Deutche Welle and Japan International Cooperation Agency,” he vowed.
He said the training courses organised by the Deutsche Welle in the past were bearing fruit and those who had got training had shown tremendous improvement in their work which was visible in different Radio Pakistan programmes.
Solangi said Radio Pakistan had transformed into a modern multimedia company, using all the modern tools, including social media for the transmission and dissemination of information to the people. He said Radio Pakistan broadcasts were now available on 100 million cellular phones in the country. “Our bilingual website is one of the best websites among state organisations in the country,” he added.
Marc Siedel and Florion Weigand said Pakistan was still a radio country with the population of remote areas relying heavily on radio to get information and entertainment. “There is no parallel of radio in the events of natural calamities like earthquake and floods as has been seen in the country in recent times,” they added.
They highly appreciated the friendly behaviour of Pakistani people right from airport to everywhere in the country. “We are taking back with us smiles that we found everywhere,” they remarked.
