Abbas Nasir is Pakistani journalist and former editor of Pakistan's English language daily ''

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''. Previously he was the head of the BBC Urdu Service, where he has been appointed as Executive Editor for the Asia and the Pacific Region at

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. Nasir began his journalism career in the early 1980s at the daily newspapers ''Dawn'' and ''Muslim''. He later joined the monthly current affairs magazine ''

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''. In May 1994 he joined the BBC Urdu Service while also serving as the chief political correspondent with the English daily ''

The News International ''The News International'', published in broadsheet size, is one of the largest English language newspapers in Pakistan. It is published daily from Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi/Islamabad. An overseas edition is published from London that cater ...

''. Later he became head of the BBC Urdu service and helped found their website in October 1999. While with the BBC, he also worked on as an analyst on their '' The World Today'' programme. He was replaced by

Zaffar Abbas Zaffar Abbas is a Pakistani journalist, who has been the editor of Pakistan's English-language daily ''Dawn (newspaper), DAWN'', since October 2010. Career Abbas started his journalism career in 1981 with ''The Star (Pakistan), The Star'' afte ...

as editor of ''Dawn'' in October 2010.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nasir, Abbas Pakistani male journalists Living people Dawn (newspaper) editors Year of birth missing (living people) People from Karachi