Nasim Zehra (

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journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

and writer who hosts a

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on ''Channel 24''.

Education and career

Zehra studied business at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan and later studied

diplomacy Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of states (such as leaders and diplomats) intended to influence events in the international system.Ronald Peter Barston, ''Modern diplomacy'', Pearson Education, 2006, p. 1 ...

at the Fletcher School at

Tufts University Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learnin ...

in 1989. She worked as a development practitioner, working with the

Canadian International Development Agency The Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) was a federal Canadian organization that administered foreign aid programs in developing countries. The agency was merged into the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2013 by the federal governmen ...

and Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Zehra served as a visiting lecturer at the

School of Advanced International Studies The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a graduate school of Johns Hopkins University based in Washington, D.C., United States, with campuses in Bologna, Italy, and Nanjing, China. It is consistently ranked one of th ...

at the

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consiste ...

in 2006, and later at the Quaid-e-Azam University in 2010. She joined

Dunya News Dunya News is a 24 hours Urdu language news and current affairs television channel from Pakistan. It is governed and operated by the National Communication Services (NCS) Pvt. Ltd. Its head office is situated at Lahore. Dunya News was founded and ...

in November 2008 as an anchor and hosted the TV program ''Policy Matters'' until February 2013. During that time, she interviewed several national and global leaders including

Michael Mullen Michael Glenn Mullen (born October 4, 1946) is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2011. Mullen previously served as the Navy's 28th chief of ...

. In April 2013, she moved to Capital TV and became the channel's current affairs editor. She left Capital TV in October 2014. In September 2015, she joined National University of Sciences and Technology as a visiting professor and remained in that position until February 2016. In October 2014, she joined ''Channel 24''. In 2018, she released the book ''From Kargil to the coup: Events that shook Pakistan'', which chronicles the context of the

Kargil conflict The Kargil War, also known as the Kargil conflict, was fought between India and Pakistan from May to July 1999 in the Kargil district of Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere along the Line of Control (LoC). In India, the conflict is also referred ...

and its consequences on

India–Pakistan relations India–Pakistan relations are the bilateral ties between the Republic of India and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The two countries have a complex and largely hostile relationship that is rooted in a multitude of historical and political ...

. At the book launching ceremony, a panel of journalists and people familiar with foreign policy and military affairs of Pakistan discussed the book including journalists

Arif Nizami Arif Nizami (Punjabi, ur, ; 14 October 1948 – 21 July 2021) was a Pakistani journalist and caretaker federal minister who was the founder of the ''Pakistan Today''. Previously, he had been an editor of ''The Nation'' and had served as Minis ...

Sohail Warraich Suhail Warraich (born 8 November 1961) is a Pakistani journalist, television host, analyst and media personality. Warraich's most popular programme is Ek Din Geo k Sath on Geo News every Saturday and Sunday. He also shares his opinions on t ...

and former Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir.Abdullah Niazi (29 May 2018)
Book launch by Nasim Zehra: ‘From Kargil to the coup: Events that shook Pakistan'
Pakistan Today (newspaper), Retrieved 23 September 2020

Bibliography

*''From Kargil to the coup : events that shook Pakistan'', 2018.

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External links

Books by Nasim Zehra on goodreads.com website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zehra, Nasim Pakistani women journalists Pakistani television talk show hosts Harvard University staff Johns Hopkins University faculty Quaid-i-Azam University alumni Living people 1959 births The Fletcher School at Tufts University alumni National University of Sciences & Technology faculty

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