Hafiz Muhammad Salman

A Media Corridor Hafiz Muhammad Salman

This Book presents an exhaustive review of the media environment, suggests a direction for the development of a Media Corridor between Pakistan and the Central Asian States. The Author has a view that the object of this research is to present a review and develop a concept of media corridor for summarizing the media strategies for local decisionmakers can employ to deal with the country image in the Central Asian States; And the Central Asian States, Namely; Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. A number of the studies show that the word global village has been given to the world just for because of media. The media has a plethora impact on the world, it can make our society as a "Global village", and it can provide a chance for our business to make in easy trade. The Media can perform a role as a Watchdog, Mirror of society for the crimes and critical issues. According to Walker (2011) in ten years past, "Public diplomacy is conduced into the 2 main frameworks, namely; "State to public and public to the public". In this book the Author describes the media environment and current media situation in landlocked countries from Central Asia based on the different experts interviews and reports from foreign governments and press rightsdefender institutions, and it provides evidence of the difficulties which come ahead if media freedom is not to develop in Central Asia. This concept like the "media corridor" will support the media associations, organizations, educational institutions that promote the media freedom and lobbying for appropriate legislation and journalists' rights. And it will also provide a general overview of the current situation of media environment in the country concerned. The purpose of this book is to raise the awareness of Media Corridor among the Pakistan and Central Asian States in the region as well as to trigger a serious debate around the issues to identify on Television Screens and how to address them in the region. The development of Media Corridor will make the opportunities in future for both side of the countries governments to development their Media Organizations, infrastructure and take a positive step for economic developments in the region. It is clear that the development of Media Corridor in between Pakistan and the Central Asian States will provide the traction and opportunities for the long term to the people belonging from the both side.