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JournalismPakistan.com September 26, 2012
ISLAMABAD: Zahid Gishkori, a reporter with The Express Tribune has won the SAARC Media Fellowship – his third award this year.
The six-month fellowship offers stipend of about $6000 and will have the participants visit all capitals of SAARC member countries.
Zahid got selected from among several hundred applicants and is the only Pakistani journalist chosen.
Other journalists on the program are Kamran Reza Chowdhury (Daily Sun, Bangladesh), Anchal Vohra (NDTV, India), Leknath Pandey (The Himalayan Times, Nepal) and Dinsa Mangalika Mudalige (Associated Newspapers of Ceylon Ltd, Sri Lanka).
Zahid’s area of study is “Pakistan-India friendship to promote business in the region.”
He thanked his editors, senior colleagues and friends who he said always encouraged him.
The young journalist landed the Canadian High Commissioner’s Award for Excellence in Pakistani Journalism in May and then got selected for a journalism course in Hamburg, Germany in July-August.
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