Munizae Jahangir

Munizae Jahangir is an award-winning TV journalist and documentary filmmaker, currently freelancing at India’s leading news channel, NDTV, while simultaneously anchoring and reporting for Pakistan’s leading media news network, Express TV; she also writes for the daily newspaper, ‘The Express Tribune’. Jahangir is presently anchoring a prime-time current affairs show called ‘Pakistan Poochta Hai’. She has also anchored an audience-based debate show, ‘Siyah Sufaid’; a show on Afghan Pakistan relations, ‘Sarhad keh Uss Paar’; and ‘Face Off’: an interview-based show tailored after BBC’s ‘Hard Talk’. Jahangir has focused on conflict areas and her documentaries for ‘Express’ include ‘Battling the Taliban’; ‘Gangs of Karachi’; and ‘Smuggling racket of South Asia’. Some of her documentaries aired on NDTV include ‘The Baloch Battlefield’; ‘Pakistan: The War Within’; and ‘The Day the Earth Shook’, a special on the South Asia earthquake 2005. Independently, Jahangir has produced and directed other widely acclaimed documentaries. She holds a BA in Political Science from McGill University and an MA in Media Studies from the New School University in New York. She is an alumnus of Harvard’s Executive Programme.