World radio that will use shortwave to transmit signals, was launched by an international group of Kashmiri civil society, Kashmir Civitas, and will focus on heritage and culture.
The station can be heard from anywhere in the world by tuning into 7355 Khz on shortwave.
“Kashmir Civitas is an international civil society and strategic advocacy organization committed to the socio-political emancipation, moral uplift and economic empowerment of Kashmir. Our organization campaigns for the fundamental right of self-determination for the people of the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir,” the website mentions.
“We only wish to exercise our internationally guaranteed democratic right to be able to communicate. Like all radio, our shortwave radio broadcast does not need internet,” the group wrote on social media.
The initiative is being called Paez Kath (Hard truth).
After August 5, 2019, Kashmir was in a complete communication blackout, where internet, mobile communication and commuting was made impossible after Government of India decided to change the status of the region. Thousands of political activists and leaders were imprisoned.
It is pertinent to note, that after Jammu and Kashmir transitioned from a state into two Union Territories, radio stations in Jammu, Srinagar and Leh were renamed ‘All India Radio, Jammu’; ‘All India Radio, Srinagar’; and ‘All India Radio, Leh’.
All India Radio’s Kashmir stations, at Srinagar and Jammu, had earlier been called ‘Radio Kashmir’.
They have, however, been a part of the AIR since the 1950s.
The move had led many to point out the explicit note of erasure in such a renaming.
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