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Azhar Abbas | |
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اظہر عباس | |
| Born | Pakistan |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives |
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| Awards | Hilal-i-Imtiaz (civilian) |
| Website | www |
Azhar Abbas is a senior Pakistani journalist and the current managing director of Geo News. [1] [2] [3] [4]
|
Azhar Abbas | |
|---|---|
اظہر عباس | |
| Born | Pakistan |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Children | 2 |
| Relatives |
|
| Awards | Hilal-i-Imtiaz (civilian) |
| Website | www |
Azhar Abbas is a senior Pakistani journalist and the current managing director of Geo News. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Abbas's father was Mirza Abid Abbas, an educationist who was the former secretary of the Hyderabad Board of Education; he died in 2002. [5] Abbas has four brothers, retired Major General Athar Abbas, Zaffar Abbas, Anwer Abbas, and Mazhar Abbas. [6] [7]
In 2008 Abbas's brother, Athar Abbas, became the Director General of the ISPR. [8] He served until 2012 and was Pakistan's Ambassador to Ukraine from 2015 to 2018. [9] His other brother Mazhar Abbas is the secretary general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, [10] while another brother, Zaffar Abbas, is the editor of Dawn (newspaper). He has another brother named Anwer Abbas. [5] [11]
He is married and has a daughter and a son.
He has been involved in mainstream journalism since 1990. He started his career with an English-language daily newspaper as a reporter. He had completed his master's degree in economics from the University of Karachi in 1990. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship program and studied at Boston University and Newhouse School of Communication. [12] He has also worked for Dawn News as the director of news and current affairs. He joined Bol News when the network was established but left after the Axact scandal. [13] [14] He is a strong supporter of the journalistic community in Pakistan and an advocate for their well-being.[ according to whom? ] [15] [16]
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