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Deepening Democracy Through Media in Pakistan National Alumni Conference 2014 October 17-20 Islamabad Marriott Deepening Democracy through Media in Pakistan National Alumni Conference 2014 October 17-20 Islamabad Marriott Participant Biographies Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Alumni: Syed Wiqas AHMAD Assistant Controller News, Khyber TV Channel, Peshawar 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Syed Wiqas Ahmad is assistant controller for news and current affairs in the regional Pashto TV channel Khyber News, a position he assumed in November 2010. He supervises three news bulletins, setting the agenda for news and assigning tasks to reporters and producers. He also hosts a weekly current affairs program (Khyber Newsroom Live) from Peshawar in which he conducts discussions on various socio-political issues taking place in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the tribal areas of Pakistan. Prior to this present position, Mr. Wiqas spent two years in Kabul as bureau chief for Khyber News and as a reporter for the Japanese daily Sankei Shimbun. While in Afghanistan he conducted the weekly current affairs programs Kabul Diary and Zeba Watan for Khyber News TV. He conducted exclusive interviews with Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, former Foreign Minister and leading challenger to Karzai in the 2009 polls, and most of the other leading presidential candidates. He produced two documentaries on Mehmood Ghaznavi and other personalities of Gazni, a multi-ethnic province hard- hit by the Afghanistan fighting.He was awarded certificates by AVT Channels for his marathon coverage of the judicial crisis and Lal Masjid operation. During this period he had an exclusive interview in London with United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Milliband, produced a documentary on music in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP), and filmed and produced a mini documentary on the military operation in Hangu as well as more than a dozen other mini documentaries on the rise of Talibanization and its consequences. Amir ARAIN Bureau Chief, Online News Network, Karachi 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Aamir Latif has been working as the Karachi bureau chief of Pakistan’s largest wire service Online News Network for the last ten years and for an Islamabad-based weekly magazine Pulse for last five years. He is also CBS radio and Boston-based newspaper Global Post correspondent in Pakistan, and a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Mr. Latif is associated with OnIslam.net, the world’s largest Islamic portal as its Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent. Mr. Latif frequently appears on Al-Jazeera English TV Channel as a panelist. He began his career at Pakistan Press Internationaland worked as a member of the investigation wing of US News and World Report from 2001 to 2008. He has been part of various award-winning stories such as “War to Win Hearts and Minds of Muslim World,” “Where This Man (Bin Laden) is Hiding,” and “Pashtun Nationalism.” With US News and World Report, he worked as a reporter for The Washington Times, and his story “FBI Puts Spiders in Pakistan” was the first one that disclosed the presence of US intelligence operations in Pakistani in 2002. Mr. Latifvisited the North Waziristan region, the prime target of US drone attacks, and has written a series for the Global Post about how drone attacks have changed Waziristan. His prime area of interest is counter-terrorism, defense, and security-related issues. He was elected as treasurer and vice-president of the Karachi Press Club, the largest press club in Pakistan, for two terms. National Alumni Conference, Participant Biographies page 2 of 13 Malik Arshad AZIZ Resident Editor, Daily Jang, Peshawar 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Malik Arshad Aziz is a senior journalist and resident editor of Daily Jang Peshawar. He has distinguished career of 23 years in journalism and started his carrier during his post graduate studies as columnist from Daily Mashriq and Daily Jang. After completing his university education, he assumed the post of sub editor at the Daily Mashriq Peshawar and then joined the Daily Aaj Peshawar as sub editor. He spent 20 years in Daily Aaj Peshawar on different positions. His last assignment was senior news editor at the Daily Aaj. He is a qualified security, first aid and trauma trainer for journalists in Pakistan. He has worked as a trainer with Internews, IFJ, PFUJ and other organizations and trained more than five hundred journalists in Pakistan. Besides his professional activities, He is also active in Journalist’s Union affairs and Peshawar Press Club activities. He was elected twice as President Khyber Union of Journalists and was elected member of federal executive council of PFUJ in 2013. Muhammad Aftab QURESHI Political Specialist, Embassy of the United States of America, Islamabad 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Muhammad Aftab Qureshi is a political specialist at the Embassy of the United States of America in Islamabad. Previously he was a staff reporter with Pakistan’s premier news organization, Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) at its head office in the Federal Capital, Islamabad, where he covered human development, reporting in conflict/disaster zones, environment, politics, tourism, and Kashmir affairs. He also covered the proceedings of the Parliament and special assignments such as the 2005 earthquake and military operations in FATA-Balochistan and their impact on the lives of citizens and on local elections. He started with APP in August 2002 after clinching a single seat in the organization in a written competition held in 2002. Mr. Qureshi had previously worked for an Islamabad-based Saraiki language television channel known as Rohi TV, preparing feature packages on various issues of human interest. Before joining APP, Mr. Qureshi worked as media coordinator and public relations officer/researcher for two Dera Ismail Khan-based NGOs. Mr. Muhammad Ejaz KHAN Bureau Chief, Geo TV/The News International, Quetta 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Muhammad Ejaz Khan is the bureau chief of Geo TV for Balochistan (based in Quetta) as well as the senior correspondent of The News International—a sister publication of the same group—for the region since 1995. He has been associated with Geo TV since its inception in 2002.As the bureau chief, he leads a team of more than 18 assignment editors, reporters, cameramen, satellite engineers and other staff members always prepared to deliver in the most challenging situations. He has written hundreds of articles on various topics related to Balochistan, covering politics, natural calamities, and problems confronted by the people especially after 9/11. He began his career in journalism after a brief stint as teacher at the Helper’s Public School and College. He started at a local English newspaper as a reporter, and moved to the South Asian Media Watch (SAMW) as its senior correspondent in Balochistan. He is a recipient of the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz—a prestigious civil award of the country—from the president of Pakistan for his services in the field of journalism. He covered the US-led war on terror in neighboring Afghanistan from the Pakistan-Afghan border as well as the conflict in Iran. He lost his right eye while reporting a terrorist bomb blast from the scene in Quetta for Geo TV. National Alumni Conference, Participant Biographies page 3 of 13 Henna SAEED International Freelance News Producer, Channel News Asia, Singapore 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Henna Saeed assumed the position of a reporter/news producer for CNA Singapore through ETN News Agency in Pakistan in June 2013. She has been doing disaster reporting, covering bomb blasts, terrorist attacks, floods, etc. from Pakistan for international audiences in Singapore and across the world. Her freelance ventures include reporting for channels like Al-Jazeera, ABP News India, Arise News Now USA and MTA-International TV, UK. Ms. Saeed started her journalistic career with the print media at Daily Times Newspaper Pakistan, where she headed the Infotainment desk. She made her television debut with Pakistan’s first English news channel, Dawn News TV, as a news producer and reporter. She is a one-woman production team; the researcher, script-writer, editor, reporter, anchor and the camera-person too. Ms. Saeed bagged the International Commission of the Red Cross award for the best electronic media journalist in Pakistan for 2011. Following this, she secured the prestigious Chevening Scholarship to study in the UK. She is the first Pakistani journalist to have won the Emerging Talent of the Year award by the O2 North West Media Organization in the UK in 2012. Mehmal SARFAZ Deputy Secretary General, South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), and Joint Secretary of South Asian Women in Media, Lahore 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Mehmal Sarfraz is the regional Deputy Secretary General, South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), an associated media body of SAARC, and Joint General Secretary of South Asian Women in Media (SAWM), a platform committed to fighting gender-based violence and promoting women’s rights in SAARC countries. Previously, she worked as the Executive Director of Vanguard Books, The Friday Times and Good Times magazine, as lead analyst in a project on child rights violations with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) and UNICEF, as the Op-Ed Editor of Daily Times, as Programmes Officer/Principal Information Officer at SAFMA, and as Deputy Editor of The Post.Ms. Sarfraz’s work has mainly focused on highlighting religious extremism in Pakistan, terrorism, women’s rights, minority rights, peace in the region, inter-faith harmony, media freedom, reporting in conflict zones, Pakistan-Afghan relations, Pakistan-US relations, Indo-Pakistan relations, foreign policy, social issues and politics. She was the only Pakistani woman editor to moderate a panel discussion at the 16th World Editors Forum in the session on the importance of female editors in newspapers. Kamal SIDDIQI Editor, The Express Tribune, Karachi 2011 Pakistan-US Journalists Exchange Kamal Siddiqi is the editor of The Express Tribune, a national English language daily.
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