APP: Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain extended good wishes and congratulated PTV for its completion of 57 years. In a tweet, the minister said that in 1961, Syed Wajid Ali gave the task to Engineer Obaidullah to set up a private TV channel.
Fawad said that this idea inspired the then President Ayub Khan who took it under government’s guardianship and thus on November 26, 1964 country’s first televised media broadcasting network was officially launched.
“Obaidullah and his team laid the foundation of this organization in a tent in Radio Pakistan and the rest is history,” the minister remarked.
