First Balochi TV channel by mid-June
Sunday, April 02, 2006
By Aziz Sanghur
KARACHI: The first private satellite Balochi television
channel, Baloch Voice, will be launched in mid-June at a
cost of 400 million UAE dirhams. The channel will be
based in the United Arab Emirates. The channel will
telecast news bulletins, dramas, music, cultural and
sports and entertainment programmes. The news
bulletins will not only be telecast in Balochi but also in
Brohi, English and Arabic languages, said Nasir Karim
Baloch, a share holder of Baloch Voice TV while talking to
Daily Times. Daily Times has learnt that Baloch Voice
Private Limited has already floated 170,000 shares at 50
dirhams per share. To become a member of the board of
directors of the company a shareholding limit of 10,000
shares has been fixed. The first meeting of the company’s
Baloch Society Of North America (BSO_NA) Baloch Society Of North America (BSO_NA) is Non-Profit Organization, working to unite and Organize
all Baloch in North America, to expose the Occupation of our land (Balochistan) and exploitations of
our resources by Pakistani and Iranian Governments, and to bring their Human Rights Violations in
Balochistan into the world’s Notice.
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Baloch Voice TV
board of directors will be held in April 5 in Dubai. “Several cultural programmes have been organized in Pakistan,
Dubai, Muscat, Saudi Arab, USA, UK etc for selling the shares. Several people, belonging to the Baloch and Sindhi
communities have also provided donations to the channel,” said Anwar Baloch, another shareholder of the channel.
He said that network has already been completed and currently staff is being hired.
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