Mass media in Pakistan

Mass media in Pakistan (Urdu: ذرائع ابلاغِ عوامی ، پاکستان) provides information on television, radio, cinema, newspapers, and magazines in Pakistan. Pakistan has a vibrant media landscape; among the most dynamic in South Asia and world. Majority of media in Pakistan is privately owned. Pakistan has around 300 privately owned daily newspapers. According to the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (formerly the Federal Bureau of Statistics), they had a combined daily sale of 6.1 million copies in 2009. Television is the main source of news and information for people in Pakistan's towns, cities and large areas of the countryside. Marketing research company Gallup Pakistan, estimated there were 86 million TV viewers in Pakistan in 2009.[1]

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 * For example, in Peshawar and other cities, newspapers offices are often trashed by madrassa trained youth in retaliation for some perceived transgression. Also when Nawaz Sharief was prime minister, he ordered the arrest of Najam Sethi, the editor of Lahore newsweekly. The Friday Times, simply for being critical of the ruling party, the Muslim League.  Sethi's arrest and detention caused an international uproar.
 * Y Rosser, Indoctrinating Minds: Politics of Education in Bangladesh. 2004, 126