[HCDX] 100 illegal FM stations operating in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan

[sakthi vel <ardicdxclub@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peace deal to give legal cover to FM stations used by
clerics

Radio is serving as an ideal propaganda tool for
radical clerics in Pakistan's restive tribal agencies,
and the inking of a peace deal between the government
and Pakistan Taliban will provide legal cover to FM
stations used by them. 

The deal under which licenses will be given to close
to 100 illegal FM stations operating in the region,
could pose a threat to the security and stability of
the country, many feel. 

According to the Pakistan Electronic Regulatory
Authority (PEMRA) 90 per cent of the around 100
illegal FM stations operating in the North West
Frontier Province and adjoining tribal areas, are used
to issue calls for Jihad and for propaganda against
the government. 

With equipment required to set up a movable FM radio
station easily available at less than Rs 10,000,
clerics have used this media tool effectively in the
last few years and despite crackdowns by PEMRA, such
stations have flourished. 

Rooting out these illegal FM stations is difficult
because they are movable and can be reassembled
quickly. "It is not even easy to jam all of them," a
PEMRA official said. 

The FM stations in these backward areas have been of
great help to clerics in spreading their messages to
the masses who have limited access to INTERNET and
television. 

Maulana Fazlullah, who became famous as "Mullah Radio"
for his fiery sermons on his illegal station, was one
of the few radicals to have initially used radio as an
effective propaganda tool. 

Wanted by security forces, Fazlullah who teaches his
own brand of radical Islam and spews hate against the
government used the FM airwaves so effectively at one
time that he even derailed an otherwise productive
polio vaccination campaign in Swat.

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200805251122.htm
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