Agahi awards: Express Group bags four awards

Three awards go to staffers of The Express Tribune.

ISLAMABAD:
The Express Media Group bagged four awards in the Agahi Journalism awards on Wednesday, with three going to staffers of The Express Tribune.

Arif Rana of the Express Group won the award for best investigative journalist. From The Express Tribune, Ali Usman bagged the award for human rights reporting, Asad Kharal on media ethics and Fazal Khaliq for reporting on gender issues.

The Agahi Awards are organised by an NGO - Mishal Pakistan, in collaboration with press clubs across the country, local and international media development bodies, regulatory authorities, the private sector and other stakeholders.


In the people’s choice category the award for the most Favourite Current Affairs Anchor and News Channel went to Hamid Mir of Capital Talk and GEO News of the Jang Group.

Haroon Baloch of Rohi TV bagged three awards. Puruesh Chaudhary, President for AGAHI, said that the initiative was launched as an effort to raise the standards of journalism in the country.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 29th, 2012.
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