ISLAMABAD/TEL AVIV – Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) is all set to establish a broadcasting center in Tel Aviv, The Dependent has reliably learnt.
Sources within the PTV management have confirmed that the national state television’s broadcasting center in Israel will be unveiled later this year, and is being launched by the recently sacked journalist Ahmed Quraishi.
Quraishi, who went to Israel last month as part of a Pakistani American delegation, was fired as per Federal Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb last week. But sources confirm that he was actually posted to Tel Aviv, where he is heading PTV operations.
“Mr Ahmed Quraishi will soon be hosting his show ‘Jaiz Riasat’ live from Tel Aviv,” confirmed a producer working with PTV’s Tel Aviv center, which is all set to be called P-Tel-Aviv.
“Jaiz Riasat will be aired in Urdu, English, Arabic and Hebrew,” the producer confirmed.
Sources have also informed that with reports of Israel joining the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, Riasat is likely to be CPEC’s official media partner, and will hence be aired in Mandarin as well.
When approached for a comment, Ahmed Quraishi told The Dependent that past should be set aside and we should recognise those that we hadn’t recognised in the past.
“It’s time the nation recognised me as the world’s topmost Pakistani-Arab-American-Israeli journalist,” the journalist told this scribe.
“There simply is no time to dwell on the past, whether mine of that of my bosses,” he insisted.
Elsewhere, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who has launched his Arabic Twitter account will soon be announcing one in Hebrew, The Dependent can confirm.
