Peshawar Radio Station () also known as Radio Pakistan Station, Peshawar is the oldest radio station in Pakistan, opening in 1935. When

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, a political leader of

North-West Frontier Province The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; ) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010. It was established on 9 November ...

Pakistan, went to

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during the

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of 1930-1932 he met

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, who had invented the

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, and requested him to donate a radio transmitter for the N.W.F.P. Soon after the gift from Marconi arrived. The transmitter, personally engineered by Marconi, was installed in

Peshawar Peshawar is the capital and List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, largest city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It is the sixth most populous city of Pakistan, with a district p ...

and inaugurated by Sir Ralph Edwin Hotchkin Griffith, the Governor of North-West Frontier Province in 1935. After 14 August 1947 the station was property of

Radio Pakistan The Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation (); also known as ''Radio Pakistan'', serves as the national public broadcaster for radio in Pakistan. Although some local stations predate its founding, it is the oldest existing broadcasting network in P ...

10 May Attack

On 10 May 2023, The new building of Radio Pakistan Station, Peshawar was attacked, ransacked, and burned down by supporters of former PM

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during the

2023 Pakistani protests On March 14, 2023, a wave of protests erupted after the Punjab Police (Pakistan), Punjab Police attempted to arrest the former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, nearly one year after his No-confidence motion against Imran Khan, removal fro ...

. The attack had led to a huge loss of historical archives, which included approximately 2,000 historic and literary books, including those by renowned Sufi poet Rehman Baba and freedom fighter Khushal Khan Khattak. And, music records of the Pashto and Hindko languages were completely destroyed.

Famous associated persons

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