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news agency A news agency is an organization that gathers news reports and sells them to subscribing news organizations, such as newspapers, magazines and All-news radio, radio and News broadcasting, television Broadcasting, broadcasters. A news agency may ...

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Kabul Kabul (; ps, , ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province; it is administratively divided into 22 municipal districts. Acco ...

, Afghanistan , language = English,

Dari Dari (, , ), also known as Dari Persian (, ), is the variety of the Persian language spoken in Afghanistan. Dari is the term officially recognised and promoted since 1964 by the Afghan government for the Persian language,Lazard, G.Darī � ...

Pashto Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...

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Danish Karokhel Danish Karokhel is the director of '' Pajhwok Afghan News'', which is one of the leading independent news agencies in Afghanistan. In 2008, he won an International Press Freedom Award from the Committee to Protect Journalists The Committee to P ...

, owner = Danish Karokhel , motto = Reflecting the Truth , market_share = , license_area = , area = Afghanistan , erp = , key_people = Danish Karokhel , launch_date = March 2004 , digital = , analog = , servicename1 = , service1 = , servicename2 = , service2 = , servicename3 = , service3 = , servicename4 = , service4 = , callsigns = , callsign_meaning = , former_callsigns = , groups = , former_affiliations = , website = , footnotes = Pajhwok Afghan News ( ps, پژواک خبري اژانس) ( prs, آژانس خبرى پژواک) is

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

's largest independent

with its headquarters in

. 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,

and

languages. The news agency also provides photographs, video footage and audio clips to international wire agencies, televisions and radio stations.About us
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

. ''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 The CPJ International Press Freedom Awards honor journalists or their publications around the world who show courage in defending press freedom despite facing attacks, threats, or imprisonment. Established in 1991, the awards are administered by ...

. * 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 Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is the state-owned news network and international radio broadcaster of the United States of America. It is the largest and oldest U.S.-funded international broadcaster. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content ...

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 The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)french: Programme des Nations unies pour le développement, PNUD is a United Nations agency tasked with helping countries eliminate poverty and achieve sustainable economic growth and human dev ...

award in December 2021.

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Pajhwok staff and awards

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