Shaheen Sehbai is a

Pakistani-American Pakistani Americans ( ur, ) are Americans who originate from Pakistan. The term may also refer to people who also hold a dual Pakistani and U.S. citizenship. Educational attainment level and household income are much higher in the Pakistani-Am ...

journalist and former Group Editor of daily English newspaper ''

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''.

Career

Shaheen Sehbai resigned from ''

'' in March 2002 after receiving a memorandum from his publisher admonishing him for publicishing libelous material, alienating advertisers, and generally avoiding senior government officials as well his own staff, among other complaints; Mr. Sehbai claimed that the criticism was because he failed to support the Musharraf government. In August 2002, the

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sent a public letter to then-President

Pervez Musharraf General Pervez Musharraf ( ur, , Parvez Muśharraf; born 11 August 1943) is a former Pakistani politician and four-star general of the Pakistan Army who became the tenth president of Pakistan after the successful military takeover of t ...

to draw his attention to alleged harassment of Shaheen Sehbai's family. In July 2010, Shaheen Sehbai filed a defamation notice against

Azeem Daultana Azeem Daultana (Punjabi, ur, }; 4 April 1979 – 10 January 2012) was a Pakistani politician from the Pakistan Peoples Party who served as a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and parliamentary secretary for information. Daultana a ...

, a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and two newspapers for publishing a column written by Daultana. The notice complains that the column alleges that Sehbai has undertaken a "revenge mission" against the present President

Asif Ali Zardari Asif Ali Zardari ( ur, ; sd, ; born 26 July 1955) is a Pakistani politician who is the president of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians and was the co-chairperson of Pakistan People's Party. He served as the 11th president of Pakist ...

because Sehbai had been "denied" an Ambassadorship, a claim that was originally made in an Aftab Iqbal column published in Nawa-i-Waqt on December 29, 2008. In April 2016, Shaheen Sehbai resigned from ''

'' citing concerns about the newspaper's political leaning and claiming that the paper "unnecessarily engaged in a dangerous conflict with national institutions."

References

External links

Interview with Shaheen Sehbai
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