Germany’s international broadcaster Deutsche Welle is responding to the natural disaster in Pakistan by extending its Urdu service on DW-RADIO by 30 minutes daily.
Head of the Asia Service of DW-RADIO, Sybille Golte-Schröder, said that DW wants to inform listeners in the affected areas about the situation, and about help on offer. DW targets specifically listeners in Kashmir where many villages are completely cut off from the outside world.
The additional programms in Urdu are broadcast daily in the morning between 5.30 und 6.00 (local time) on 7130, 9505 und 9825 kHz. DW was already broadcasting twice daily news, reports, commentaries and analysis in the region. About one million listeners tune into the DW programmes in Urdu.