Broadcasting to Jammu and Kashmir from New Delhi, Gulistan News was the first news channel to start a helpline telephone service for distressed people of Jammu and Kashmir who had suddenly become disconnected from each other and the outside world.

Soon, another news channel, ETV Urdu, also began running a ticker of messages sent by people living outside the state for their families back home in Kashmir.

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