Munizae Jahangir

Munizae Jahangir is an award-winning TV journalist and documentary filmmaker, currently working at Pakistan’s leading media house, Aaj TV, where she anchors a prime-time current affairs show called ‘Spotlight’. Jahangir has been anchoring TV shows and reporting for prominent news media outlets in Pakistan for the last decade, including Express, Dawn, and Geo Network. She also writes for the Dawn newspaper and freelances for India’s NDTV as their correspondent. She was previously NDTV’s country correspondent from 2004 to 2015.

Jahangir has conducted cross-border audience-based talk shows with India and Afghanistan, prominent among them being ‘Sarhad keh Uss Paar’ with Tolo News and ‘Beyond Borders’ with NDTV India. She is the first Pakistani to report for an Indian news channel, NDTV, as their country correspondent.

Jahangir is the editor-in-chief of Voicepk.net, Pakistan’s first digital media platform focusing on human rights issues. The platform has been instrumental in getting justice for women and girl victims of violence, forced conversions, and marriages.

Jahangir focuses on conflict areas and has produced and directed an award-winning documentary on the war in Afghanistan called ‘Search for Freedom,’ aired on ABC.

She is an elected co-chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and an elected board member of South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR). She is a founder of SAWM (South Asian Women in Media), a group that represents women journalists across South Asia.