Zia Ur Rehman

Zia Ur Rehman
Zia Ur Rehman at Agahi Awards 2013
Born Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Nationality Pakistani
Occupation Journalist and Author

Zia Ur Rehman ( Urdu Pashto,: ضیاءالرحمن, born 1981) is a Karachi-based Pakistani journalist, researcher and author and mainly writes on conflict, human rights, minorities, and politics.[1] [2]

Personal life

Rehman belongs to Swat valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and his parents migrated to Karachi in 1960s. Rehman was born and raised in Karachi, the capital of Sindh province..[3] He received his master degree from University of Karachi in 2005.


Work

Currently Rehman is working as a senior reporter with the prominent English daily The News International in Karachi. He has also been writing for the New York Times and The National.[4] He has also been published in The Friday Times,[5] Dawn and Herald (Pakistan) among other publications. He mainly covers security,political and human rights issues and monitors and specialises in Islamist and ethnic movements in the region

He has been widely quoted in international and national publications, such as Washington Post,[6]Rueters,[7] AFP, [8] and Radio Free Europe Free Liberty.[9]

Rehman has also offered training of conflict reporting to journalists [10] and also trained a number of Karachi youth from underprivileged and underreported areas of Karachi to teach them reporting and news-writing as well as photo and video journalism.[11]

Publications

Rehman authored a book titled Karachi in Turmoil, in February 2013.[12] , containing a detailed coverage of the ethnic violence in Karachi. Taliban phenomenon is also discussed in detail.[13] He also contributed a chapter on Pashtuns in Karachi in the book 'Cityscapes of Violence in Karachi: Publics and Counterpublics’[14] published in 2017 by the C. Hurst & Co. In his chapter, Rehman highlights multiple pressures experienced by the politics of the Pashtun community in Karachi. According to a book review published in Herald (Pakistan) magazine, one of the interesting features in his very cogent analysis is how the jihadi groups in Karachi appropriated criminal methods of extortion in order to raise funds and in doing so ended up harassing their own core ethnic group — Pakhtuns, specifically wealthy transporters and businessmen in the community.[15]

Rehman has also written research reports and articles for several national and international publications and journals, including the Terrorism Monitor of the Jamestown Foundation,[16] CTC Sentinel, a publication of the Combating Terrorism Center [17] and Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center (NOREF).

Awards

Rehman won four Agahi Journalism Awards in 2013 for his reports on minorities and security issues.[18]. In 2018, he was selected for prestigious British Chevening Scholarship South Asian Journalism fellowship.[19]

References

  1. ↑ Zia Ur Rehman, Author, The News International, https://www.thenews.com.pk/writer/zia-ur-rehman Retrieved June 24, 2018
  2. ↑ "Author Zia Ur Rehman, Dawn". Dawn Newspaper.
  3. ↑ Zia Ur Rehman, Jamestown Foundation https://jamestown.org/analyst/zia-ur-rehman/
  4. ↑ Zia Ur Rehman, The National, https://www.thenational.ae/topics/Author/Zia%20Ur%20Rehman
  5. ↑ Zia Ur Rehman, The Friday Times, http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/author/zia-ur-rehman/
  6. ↑ Craig, Tim. 'Karachi residents live in fear as Pakistani Taliban gains strength' Washington Post, Feb 14, 2014 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/karachi-in-fear-as-pakistan-taliban-gains/2014/02/03/010aafea-8991-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html
  7. ↑ Ebrahim, Zofeen T. Teenage couple electrocuted in Pakistan in 'honor killing': police. Reuters Sep 11, 2017 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-rights-killings/teenage-couple-electrocuted-in-pakistan-in-honor-killing-police-idUSKCN1BM2BD
  8. ↑ Taliban 'no-go' zones liberated in Karachi https://tribune.com.pk/story/956429/pakistan-liberates-taliban-no-go-zones-in-karachi/
  9. ↑ Babar, Majeed, Why Are Pakistan's Militant Groups Splintering? October 1, 2011 https://www.rferl.org/a/pakistan_militant_groups_splintering/24345902.html
  10. ↑ Progressive reporting and analysis can change skewed perceptions of a conflict February 5, 2015 http://san-pips.com/printview.php?action=events&id=124
  11. ↑ Citizen journalism training helps youth tell a different story, The News International October 30, 2017 https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/240539-Citizen-journalism-training-helps-youth-tell-a-different-story
  12. ↑ "Saleem, Javeria, Prevailing bloodshed in Karachi, The Nation,". Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  13. ↑ "Seminar on Tackling violent conflict and extremism in Karachi". PIPS Islamabad. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  14. ↑ https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/cityscapes-violence-karachi/
  15. ↑ Siddiqi, Farhan Hanif, Analysing violence in Karachi, Herald, October 13, 2017, https://herald.dawn.com/news/1153853
  16. ↑ Zia Ur Rehman, Jamestown Foundation https://jamestown.org/analyst/zia-ur-rehman/
  17. ↑ Archives. Zia Ur Rehman, CTC Sentinel https://ctc.usma.edu/authors/zia-ur-rehman/
  18. ↑ "Four Awards were given to Zia Ur Rehman At Agahi Awards". Agahi Awards. Retrieved 31 August 2014.
  19. ↑ SAJP Fellows 2018 http://www.chevening.org/fellows/sajp-fellows Retrieved 24 June 2018.
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