JournalismPakistan.com | Published February 05, 2022
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ISLAMABAD—Senior journalist Fahd Husain has resigned as resident editor of Dawn newspaper in Islamabad but will remain associated with the Dawn Media Group as a columnist and TV anchor.
JournalismPakistan.com has learned that he plans to venture into independent projects.
Fahd had joined Dawn in 2019. He is considered one of the country's leading journalists and has three decades of journalism experience working in newspapers and television both in Pakistan and abroad.
He has been a newspaper reporter, editor, columnist, TV anchor, and news director during this career. He has also spearheaded the launch of three news channels.
Before joining Dawn in October 2019, Fahd worked as executive director of news at Express News TV and executive editor of the daily The Express Tribune.
Fahd began his career as a journalist at The Muslim newspaper in 1991. He later worked as editor of the Islamabad edition of The Nation and later as the editor of The News, Islamabad.
Fahd has also worked with the leading American TV channel CBS News in New York, where he was a member of the newsroom team that managed the coverage of the United States' war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Later he became the anchor of Pakistan's first independent English talk show on Geo TV.
He also served as director of news of Express News, Express 24/7 (which was at one point Pakistan's only 24-hour English news network), as well as director news at Dunya TV.
In 2013 he led the launch of Capital TV. He has also hosted prime-time talk shows on Express News, ARY News TV, and Waqt News TV.
His international assignments include covering the US Presidential Elections in 2004 and traveling to Lebanon to cover the Hezbollah-Israel war in 2006.
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