Pajhwok Afghan News ( ps, پژواک خبري اژانس) ( prs, آژانس خبرى پژواک) is
Afghanistan's largest independent
news agency with its headquarters in
Kabul.
In addition to 24-hour general news reporting, it also publishes special investigative reports about important topics relating to Afghanistan, including
political corruption
Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain.
Forms of corruption vary, but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, in ...
. The agency has eight regional bureaus and a nationwide network of reporters and correspondents. Pajhwok delivers an average daily output of three dozen stories in English,
Pashto and
Dari languages. The news agency also provides photographs, video footage and audio clips to international wire agencies, televisions and radio stations.
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Pajhwok Afghan News.
Owned and operated entirely by
Afghans
Afghans ( ps, افغانان, translit=afghanan; Persian/ prs, افغان ها, translit=afghānhā; Persian: افغانستانی, romanized: ''Afghanistani'') or Afghan people are nationals or citizens of Afghanistan, or people with ancestry f ...
, Pajhwok Afghan News claims to have no political affiliations.
Its founder and director is
Danish Karokhel. ''Pajhwok'' is a Pashto word meaning reflection or echo in both Pashto and Dari.
Pajhwok staff and awards
Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) has received many national and international press awards in the last two decades. Some of these including the following:
* PAN's director Danish Karokhel won the 2008
CPJ International Press Freedom Award.
* PAN's reporter Weeda Baraki won the best feature-writing award in 2013.
* PAN's journalist Fayyaz Umari won the best photojournalist award in 2016.
* PAN's reporters Bashir Ahmad Naadim, Zirak Fahim and Bismillah Pashtunmal won
Voice of America media awards in 2018.
* PAN's reporter Navid Ahmad Barakzai won "journalist of the year award" in 2019.
* PAN won Media & Mission of Anti-Corruption award in March 2021.
* PAN's editor Abasin Zaheer became a recipient of a
UNDP award in December 2021.
See also
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Media of Afghanistan
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