Media
There are numerous television and radio programs that represent Pakistani-Canadian culture. Surprise CBC hit Little Mosque on the Prairie also features a Pakistani Canadian family.
- Television
A number of Canadian television networks broadcast programming that features Pakistani-Canadian culture. These television shows often highlight Pakistani-Canadian events in Canada, and also show events from Pakistan involving Pakistanis who reside there. Recently with an upsurge in digital cable subscribers, Rogers Digital Cable now provides Geo TV, ARY Digital and Indus Vision. Some popular shows on Canadian networks include.
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- The Voice of Pakistan - Vision TV (Since 1971)
- Kal Kahan Ab Yahan - OMNI TV
- Yeh Karavan - OMNI TV
- Dharti Sohni Pakistan - SHAW
- Radio
- Radio Pakistan Toronto (WTOR), airs daily from Monday to Saturday and is broadcast to much of the Greater Toronto Area and Western New York.
- PakMusic, hosted by Adeel Suhrwardy every Sunday on Radio Rimjhim, which is heard across Canada and parts of the Northwest United States.
- Dharti Sohni Pakistan airs a 2 hour daily radio show on CHIN-FM in the Toronto and Ottawa regions, which broadcasts news from Radio Pakistan as well as BBC Urdu, VoA Urdu as well as Pakistani songs and events happening.
A number of weekly Urdu language newspapers are printed and distributed throughout Canada most notably Urdu Times is the largest circulated Urdu Newspaper of Urdu Language in Canada, it is being published by Urdu Times Group of Publications. Group also publishes a weekly magazine called Times Mag and weekend edition which is called Weekly Awam. Awam mean " Public" in Urdu Language.
- Web
www.urdutimes.com
www.eawaz.com
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