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Pajhwok Afghan News

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News agency in Afghanistan
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Pajhwok Afghan News
Pashto:پژواک خبري اژانس
Dari:آژانس خبرى پژواک
TypeIndependentnews agency
Founded2003
byDanish Karokhel
MottoReflecting the Truth
HeadquartersKabul, Afghanistan
AreaAfghanistan
OwnerDanish Karokhel[1]
Key people
Danish Karokhel
Launch date
March 2004
Official website
pajhwok.com
LanguageEnglish,Dari,Pashto

Pajhwok Afghan News (Pashto:پژواک خبري اژانس) (Dari:آژانس خبرى پژواک) isAfghanistan's largest independentnews agency with its headquarters inKabul.[2][3][4] In addition to 24-hour general news reporting, it also publishes special investigative reports about important topics relating to Afghanistan, includingpolitical corruption.[5][6][7] The agency has eight regional bureaus and a nationwide network of reporters and correspondents. Pajhwok delivers an average daily output of three dozen stories in English,Pashto andDari languages. The news agency also provides photographs, video footage and audio clips to international wire agencies, televisions and radio stations.[8]

Owned and operated entirely byAfghans, Pajhwok Afghan News claims to have no political affiliations.[8] Its founder and director isDanish Karokhel.Pajhwok is a Pashto word[9] meaning reflection or echo in both Pashto and Dari.[8][10]

Pajhwok staff and awards

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Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) has received many national and international press awards in the last two decades.[11] These include:

  • PAN's director Danish Karokhel won the 2008CPJ International Press Freedom Award.
  • PAN's reporter Weeda Baraki won the best feature-writing award in 2013.[12]
  • PAN's journalist Fayyaz Umari won the best photojournalist award in 2016.[13]
  • PAN's reporters Bashir Ahmad Naadim, Zirak Fahim and Bismillah Pashtunmal wonVoice of America media awards in 2018.[14]
  • PAN's reporter Navid Ahmad Barakzai won "journalist of the year award" in 2019.[15]
  • PAN won Media & Mission of Anti-Corruption award in March 2021.[16]
  • PAN's editor Abasin Zaheer became a recipient of aUNDP award in December 2021.[17]

See also

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References

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  1. ^"Danish Karokhel". Reporters Without Borders. January 2014. Retrieved10 July 2021.
  2. ^Committee to Protect Journalists (2009).Attacks on the Press in 2008: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Committee to Protect Journalists. p. 233.ISBN 978-0-944823-28-6. Retrieved10 July 2021.
  3. ^"Unlikely Stories, or the Making of an Afghan News Agency". Pulitzer Center. Archived fromthe original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved10 July 2021.
  4. ^Peter Eichstaedt (February 2009).First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army. Chicago Review Press. pp. 14–.ISBN 978-1-56976-260-8.
  5. ^"MEHWAR: Smuggling of Ventilators Discussed". TOLOnews. June 23, 2020. Retrieved2022-07-20.
  6. ^"Taliban Controls 52% of Territory in Afghanistan: Survey". TOLOnews. February 13, 2021. Retrieved2022-07-20.
  7. ^"RSF Honors Afghan Female Reporter For 'Courageous Journalism'". TOLOnews. June 15, 2020. Retrieved2022-07-20.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^abcAbout us. Pajhwok Afghan News.
  9. ^"English - Pashto". Archived fromthe original on 2004-11-01. Retrieved2025-03-18.
  10. ^"Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad, Director and Deputy Director, Pajhwok Afghan News".Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved10 July 2021.
  11. ^Tanha, Mohammad Gul (7 January 2015)."Book titled Professional Journalism launched".
  12. ^Khitab, Hassan (5 May 2013)."Journalists receive NAI awards".
  13. ^Khitab, Hassan (5 May 2016)."Pajhwok staffer wins best photojournalist award".
  14. ^Kakar, Javed Hamim (7 September 2018)."Pajhwok reporters win all 3 VoA media awards".
  15. ^Salehi, Zarghona (18 March 2019)."Pajhwok reporter Barakzai wins 'Journalist of the Year award'".
  16. ^Hasrat, Ahmad Sohaib (18 March 2021)."Pajhwok wins Media & Mission of Anti-Corruption award".
  17. ^Sail, Abdul Raqeeb (9 December 2021)."Pajhwok editor among winners of anti-graft award".

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