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When did Press and Publications Ordinance was formed?
- A) 1961
- B) 1963
- C) 1958
- D) 1965
How many newspapers and magazines were closed by martial law court in General Zia ul Haq’s regime?
- A) 10
- B) 50
- C) 18
- D) 15
Which of the following resigned from the central legislature as protest against Rowlett act?
- A) Jawaharlal Nehru
- B) Mahatma Gandhi
- C) Quaid e Azam
- D) Allama Iqbal
The best example of war fought with military and media on parallel scale is _________.
- A) America Vietnam War
- B) All of the given options
- C) Kuwait Iraq war
- D) World War I
Development communication uses which of the following approach as its tool?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Participatory communication
- C) Media advocacy
- D) Social mobilization
After Pakistan came into being, its leaders decided to be a part of __________ block.
- A) Neutral
- B) Soviet Union
- C) Communist
- D) American
Khilafat movement was started in _________?
- A) 1916
- B) 1918
- C) 1914
- D) 1912
Which programmes are broadcasted in the world service for overseas Pakistanis by radio Pakistan?
- A) Entertainment-based programmes are produced in this category
- B) Local and national issues are discussed in these programmes
- C) Programmes are produced to keep the expatriates aware of what is going on in their homeland
- D) All of the given options
Who came to power by overthrowing Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto?
- A) Pervaiz Musharraf
- B) Zia ul Haq
- C) Yahya Khan
- D) Ayub Khan
Who abrogated the first constitution of Pakistan?
- A) Ghulam Ishaq khan
- B) Sikander Mirza
- C) Mohammed khan junejo
- D) General Ayub Khan
Which of the following role mass media plays in a democratic society?
- A) It works as a mirror of the society
- B) It provides information to the society
- C) All of the given options
- D) It works as a watchdog
Which of the following is a not major organization that has been formed to secure the journalists’, newspapers’ and editors’ rights in Pakistan?
- A) PPI
- B) APNS
- C) PFUJ
- D) CPNE
In how many international languages radio Pakistan is broadcasting its programmes?
- A) 8
- B) 31
- C) 23
- D) 4
Who converted Jame Jahan Numa into a Persian newspaper?
- A) Munshi Naik Chand
- B) Sir Syed ahmed khan
- C) Munshi Sada Sukh
- D) Moulana mohammed ali johar
The book Four Theories of the Press was originally published in _________.
- A) 1950
- B) 1966
- C) 1956
- D) 1960
Which of the following act was imposed in 1919?
- A) Police Act
- B) Gagging Act
- C) Rowlett Act
- D) None of these
After independence, the two units of Pakistan share one common thing and that was?
- A) Ideology
- B) Tradition
- C) Culture
- D) Language
When did Radio Pakistan get commercial and involved itself in advertising and sponsorships?
- A) In 1960s
- B) In 1980s
- C) In 1970s
- D) In 1950s
Conventional Radio transmission was broadcasted using ___________.
- A) Digitally modulated signals
- B) Base band signals
- C) Radio waves
- D) Digitally encoded signals
"Farm Radio Forum." was started in ___________.
- A) India
- B) America
- C) Canada
- D) Germany