Tribune scribe chosen for SAARC Fellowship
JournalismPakistan.com | Published: 26 September 2012
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Zahid Gishkori, a reporter for The Express Tribune, has been awarded the prestigious SAARC Media Fellowship. This fellowship is aimed at enhancing regional cooperation between SAARC countries.Summary
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.
Key Points
- Zahid Gishkori is the only Pakistani journalist selected for the fellowship.
- The fellowship offers a stipend of about $6000 for a six-month period.
- Participants will visit all capitals of SAARC member countries.
- Zahid previously won the Canadian High Commissioner's Award for Excellence in Pakistani Journalism.
- He was also selected for a journalism course in Hamburg, Germany earlier this year.
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