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Pakistan wants revival of talks with India: Zardari Updated at: 1639 PST,  Friday, June 19, 2009
 BRUSSELS: President Asif Ali Zardari said Friday Pakistan wants early resumption of bilateral talks with India.

Talking to German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a meeting here, Asif Zardari urged Germany to play a role regarding the restoration of bilateral talks between Pakistan and India.

Apprising her of the ongoing crackdown on the terrorists in Pakistan, he said Pakistan wants peace and has continued its full-fledged

 

 

 

 

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British Broadcasting Corporation

Type	Broadcast radio, television and online
Country	United Kingdom
Availability	National International
Founded	by John Reith
Motto	"Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation"
Key people	Sir Michael Lyons, Chairman, BBC Trust Mark Thompson, Director-General (Chairman of the Executive Board).
Launch date	1922 (radio) 1927 (incorporation) 1932 (television) 1996 (online)
Former names	British Broadcasting Company Ltd. (1922-1927)
Website http://www.bbc.co.uk/

The British Broadcasting Corporation, almost always referred to by its abbreviation "the BBC",^[1] is the world's largest broadcaster.^[2] In common with the public broadcasting organisations of many other European countries, it is funded yearly by a television licence fee charged to all UK households which own a television capable of receiving broadcasts, rather than being underwritten directly by

History

The original British Broadcasting Company was founded in 1922 by a group of six telecommunications companies—Marconi, Radio Communication Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Electric, Western Electric, and British Thomson-Houston^[3]—to broadcast experimental radio services. The first transmission was on 14 November of that year, from station 2LO, located at Marconi House, London.^[4]

The Company, with John Reith as general manager, became the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927 when it was granted a Royal Charter (this expires in July 2017) of incorporation and ceased to be privately owned. To represent its purpose and values, the Corporation adopted the coat of arms, incorporating the motto "Nation shall speak peace unto Nation".^[5] Experimental television broadcasts were started in 1932 using an electromechanical 30 line system developed by John Logie Baird. The broadcasts became a regular service (known as the BBC Television Service) in 1936, alternating between a Baird mechanical 240 line system and the all electronic 405 line Marconi-EMI system. The superiority of the electronic system saw the mechanical system dropped later that year. Television broadcasting was suspended from 1 September 1939 to 7 June 1946 during the Second World War. A widely reported urban myth is that, upon resumption of service, announcer Leslie Mitchell started by saying, "As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted ..." In fact, the first person to appear when transmission resumed was Jasmine Bligh and the words said were "Good afternoon, everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh ...?"^[6]