Sairbeen

Sairbeen is a flagship show of BBC Urdu about current affairs aired on the radio and television.[1] The show was started in 1968.[1]

History

With its start in 1968, it acquired huge following in Pakistan.[1] During Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, when the state television, PTV, told that everything is fine in East Pakistan, the program told the truth.[1] During 1999 Pakistani coup d'état, it acquired around 20 million people tuning in each week.[1]

gollark: The downside is just that you generally can't trust anyone to do it, but obviously I would be the correct world dictator.
gollark: Central allocation would have a lot of advantages, since we could avoid a lot of the negative-sum competitive things like advertising, duplication of effort in R&D, and most lawyers.
gollark: Who says I'm a pizza? And sentient?
gollark: Ideally, we would just have me (as supreme world dictator) doing all resource allocation.
gollark: I may have to look up exactly how much carbon dioxide exists.

References

  1. Nasir, Abbas (December 23, 2019). "It's Sairbeen's final goodbye after 51 years". DAWN.COM.
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