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2013 Pakistan-Us Journalists Exchange 2013 PAKISTAN-US JOURNALISTS EXCHANGE MARCH 6 –23, 2013 Participant Biographies-Pakistani Journalists Muhammad Imran Ahmed Chief Reporter, Roznama (Daily) Dunya Karachi, Karachi Muhammad Imran Ahmed has been associated with Roznama Dunya Karachi since June 2012 as chief reporter. Roznama Dunya Karachi has become one of the top emerging Urdu newspapers in Pakistan in a short period of time, simultaneously publishing from Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Sargodha. Mr. Ahmed and the team of professionals he leads are responsible for covering all aspects of the news from ethnic, religious, linguistic and political topics to the vulnerable security situation in Karachi while executing them under stringent deadlines. He is also responsible for making editorial decisions on sensitive news and how to cover important news events. Before joining the Dunya Media Group, Mr. Ahmed worked as bureau chief of Express Media Group’s Urdu TV channel in Karachi from December 2006 to June 2012. He reported extensively on political and security situations in Karachi such as the Lyari Gang War, extortion, and terrorist activities like the major attack on the Mehran Naval Airbase which he covered live as the first to break the news on his channel. Prior to becoming an electronic media journalist, Mr. Ahmed was a print media journalist associated with one of the largest newspapers in Pakistan, the Daily Express in Karachi. He served in different capacities from trainee reporter to senior reporter to chief reporter. He was among the youngest chief reporters in the city at that time working for one of the most widely- read Urdu newspapers. There he led his team and broke many exclusive stories such as the suicide attacks on French engineers at the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi and the attack on American diplomat David Foey near the Marriot Hotel. He also covered political developments like the military coup against former Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif. Throughout his career Mr. Ahmed has interviewed Former President General Pervez Musharraf, Major General Salahuddin Satti, Former Director General Sindh of the Pakistan Rangers, and many other federal and provincial government officials, heads of political parties, and foreign dignitaries. He won the National Reconstruction Bureau Award for best local bodies reporting and was invited by the Pakistan Rangers to deliver lectures on coordination and cooperation between media and law enforcement agencies under prevailing security environments in January 2012. He serves as senior joint secretary of the Karachi Union of Journalists, member of the Association of Television Media Journalists, member of the Karachi Press Club, and member of the Pakistan Arts Council. Mr. Ahmed obtained his master’s degree in mass communication from Karachi University and graduated from Government College Nazimabad Karachi. <<The Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange is funded by the US Embassy Islamabad>> Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange, East-West Center, 1601 East-West Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848-1601 Telephone: 808-944-7384; Fax: 808-944-7600; [email protected]; EastWestCenter.org/seminars The East-West Center promotes better relations and understanding among the people and nations of the United States, Asia, and the Pacific through cooperative study, research, and dialogue. Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Participant Biographies, page 2 of 6 Najia Ashar Senior Anchor/Producer, Geo Television Network, Karachi Ms. Najia Ashar is a senior anchor/producer currently associated with Geo News, Pakistan’s most watched private news channel. Geo News is a part of the Geo Television Network, which is owned by the Jang Group, a reputable media group of Pakistan. Ms. Ashar joined Geo News in January 2004, initially working in Dubai. She now anchors daily mainstream news bulletins in Karachi. Ms. Ashar also produced and hosted the Yeh Hai Pakistan daily news program in 2007, highlighting stories and events from the four provinces of Pakistan, and the program NAZIM HAZIR HO which interviews city, district and town administrators from different areas of the country. Besides news bulletins and programs she produced live shows with guests from all walks of life. Before joining Geo News Ms. Ashar worked for Pakistan Television Network as an Anchor/Host from 2003 to 2004. She hosted Night Time Transmission, conducted a daily program The Parliamentary Note Book and also hosted Cultural Round Up, a weekly program for PTV World. As a journalist, Ms. Ashar reported and covered various live historical events such as the Pakistan earthquake (2005), assassination of Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (2007), US presidential election (2008), Pakistan general elections (2008), Mumbai attacks (2008), Pakistan floods (2010), Abbottabad operation (2011), attack on Malala Yousafzai (2012), etc. She has received a number of journalism honors from universities, media organizations and journalist associations of Pakistan for her work in the media industry. Ms. Ashar has been an active member of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), South Asian Women in Media (SAWM) and Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ). Ms. Ashar received her master’s degree from the Department of International Relations at the University of Karachi and obtained her BA with honors in international relations, mass communication and sociology from Karachi University. Abdul Ghani Kakar Chief Investigative Reporter, Daily Awam, Quetta, Balochistan Mr. Abdul Ghani Kakar is an investigative journalist in Balochistan currently serving as a chief investigative reporter for the Urdu language newspaper the Daily Awam, and for its sister English paper, the Daily Public. He is a senior correspondent for the Washington-based Central Asia Online, a USCENTCOM-based news service which highlights movements toward greater regional stability through bilateral and multilateral cooperative arrangements. Mr. Kakar covers national and international political and social issues, crime, and culture beats, and has reported extensively on the war against terror, suicide bombing, IEDs, and militancy issues in the region. He worked with Mr. Willis Witter, the foreign desk editor of the Washington Times, accompanying him while covering the live events of the strike on Afghanistan against the Taliban and Al-Qaida, and visited the Kabul, Jalalabad, Kandahar, Helmand, Hiraat, Ghazni, and Shorawak provinces of Afghanistan. He has also traveled extensively throughout Balochistan for news coverage. Mr. Kakar is affiliated with various literary and media organizations and is an active member of the media representative bodies. He served as a senior vice president of the Balochistan Union of Journalists and president of the Balochistan Newspapers Workers Union for its previous tenure. Previously, Mr. Kakar served as bureau chief for ARY One World Television, Balochistan, and as producer and anchor of the current affairs program, Nun-SABA, for a Pashto Television station, Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Participant Biographies, page 3 of 6 Shamshad. He previously hosted and remains responsible for generating content for a Pashto TV Kabul program (JIRGA) for its Quetta station. Mr. Kakar graduated from the University of Balochistan, Quetta with a master’s in mass communication and has certificates in political and legal reporting. He also completed a course in Advanced Newspaper Management from the International Institute of Journalism, and has certificates for advanced English (CAE) and a diploma in computer software, hardware, disc operating systems, web developing and multimedia editing. Nisar Ali Khokhar Special Correspondent, KTN News TV, Hyderabad Mr. Nisar Ali Khokhar is a mid-career journalist and author of two books in the Sindhi language of Pakistan. He is working as a special correspondent with a leading and vibrant local and regional Sindhi media house, KTN News. He contributes a weekly column in the largest circulated Sindhi Daily newspaper, Kawish, which is published by the same media house. Mr. Khokhar has directed and produced several socio-political talk shows and documentaries for KTN News. These documentaries envisage the wide-ranging and burning issues of socio-political concerns, human rights, child labor, religious extremism, indigenous secular Sufism, honor killing, water crisis, etc. His documentaries and talks shows were thrice awarded in the annual KTN award. He also received the Women Courage Award from Oxfam and allied organization SDS for best reporting in 2006. Mr. Khokhar was associated with Internews Network International as mentor/trainer in 2010, where he trained radio-journalists who were assigned to cover the flood in Sindh. He joined the BBC Urdu service in 2005 as a radio/online producer based at Sukkur where his responsibility was to cover the rural areas of Pakistan and Sindh. He resigned from the BBC in 2010 due to his serious concerns about the lack of coverage of regional and local issues in Sindh and Pakistan. Mr. Khokhar also contributes to the leading English publishing houses of Pakistan. However, his forte is Sindhi media which influences Sindhi viewers and readers since it focuses exclusively on the issues of Sindh. Mr. Khokhar is a talented orator who delivers scholarly research papers and lectures on several socio-political issues in the international and national organization and NGOs. He was part of the South Asian Assembly of Change Makers panel in 2006 at Colombo and was also among the panelists of the International Conference on honour killing organized
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