Pajhwok Afghan News

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Pajhwok Afghan News
پژواک خبري اژانس , آژانس خبرى پژواک
TypeMedia, Online Media, Newspaper
Country
 Afghanistan
AvailabilityDari, English, Pashto
Founded2003
by Danish Karokhel
MottoReflecting the Truth
Broadcast area
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, United Arab Emirates
AreaAfghanistan
OwnerDanish Karokhel[1]
Launch date
March 2004
Official website
www.pajhwok.com
LanguageDari, English, Pashto

Pajhwok Afghan News (Pashto: پژواک خبري اژانس) (Dari: آژانس خبرى پژواک) is Afghanistan's largest independent news agency.[2][3][4] Its headquarters in Kabul, eight regional bureaus and a nationwide network of reporters and correspondents, Pajhwok delivers an average daily output of three dozen stories in English, Pashto and Dari, which is the Afghan Persian. Pajhwok also provides photographs, video footage and audio clips to international wire agencies, televisions and radio stations.[5]

Owned and operated entirely by Afghans, Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) claims to have no political affiliations.[5] Its founder and director is Danish Karokhel. Pajhwok is a Pashto word[6] meaning reflection or echo in both Pashto and Dari languages.[5][7]

International awards[]

  • PAN's director, Danish Karokhel, won the 2008 CPJ International Press Freedom Award.

See also[]

  • Media of Afghanistan

References[]

  1. ^ "Danish Karokhel". Reporters Without Borders. January 2014. Retrieved 10 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. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
  3. ^ Vanessa M. Gezari,Kathleen Flynn. "Unlikely Stories, or the Making of an Afghan News Agency". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 10 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. ^ a b c About us. Pajhwok Afghan News.
  6. ^ http://www.qamosona.com
  7. ^ "Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad, Director and Deputy Director, Pajhwok Afghan News". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

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