Digital Media in Pakistan: 10 Essential Follows
Digital Media in Pakistan: 10 Essential Follows
Digital media in Pakistan has witnessed a vibrant growth in the past few years. Many online social media platforms have emerged, offering a various sources of news and updates ranging from politics to economics.
Here are our top 10 picks sources to follow:
Blog Aggregators:
1. Teak Break
Blog aggregator that syndicates Pakistani blogs and categorizes them appropriately. The website makes it easier for blog readers by bringing all the popular blogs of Pakistan on one platform. Started out with 5 blogs, now Tea Break has a network of over 1500 registered bloggers with 400 blogs still waiting to be registered. Over 100 blog posts get aggregated to Tea Break on a daily basis.
Visit Tea Break at http://teabreak.pk
2. Pakistan Positive
Another Pakistan blog aggregator is Pakistan Positive, which aimed to share “simple Pakistani news and stories, blogged without religious, political or military tones”.
Visit Pakistan Positive at http://positivepakistan.org
Individual Blogs:
3. Huma Yusuf (humayusuf)
Huma Yusuf is an award-winning columnist and investigative journalist. She writes a weekly column in the leading Pakistani English-language daily, Dawn, on topics related to security, terrorism, foreign relations, and human rights. Her column has twice won the Best Column Award from the All Pakistan Newspapers Society (2008 and 2010). She is currently the Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Visit her blog at http://www.humayusuf.com
4. Faisal Kapadia (faisalkapadia)
Writer, Explorer, Entrepreneur, Social activist & Cultural critic. Faisal believes in working against the tides of corruption, negativity & exploitation that threaten to engulf his country Pakistan. He has also authored more than a hundred (print and online articles) which are also featured on this blog in the published articles section.
Visit his blog at http://www.faisalkapadia.com
5. Mohammed Hanif (mohammedhanif)
Mohammed Hanif is a Pakistani writer and journalist. He has worked for The Washington Post, India Today and BBC. His first novel A case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) won the 2009 Commonwealth Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2008 Guadian First Book Award. He has also written for the stage and screen.
6. Huma Imtiaz (HumaImtiaz)
Huma Imtiaz works as a journalist. Originally from Pakistan, she is currently based in Washington, DC as a correspondent for Express News and Express Tribune. Prior to this, she has worked as a correspondent for Geo News, and as a freelance journalist. Her work has appeared in The New York Times and Dawn amongst other publications.
Visit her blog at http://humaimtiaz.com
Twitter:
7. Husain Haqqani (husainhaqqani)
Husain Haqqani is the former Pakistan Ambassador to the United States. Previously, he has held numerous high-ranking positions in and out of government, and has been a prominent journalist, scholar and educator. Husain Haqqani was forced to resign as ambassador late in 2011 after a Pakistani-American businessman claimed he had passed on a memo on behalf of President Asif Ali Zardari pleading for US help to oust its army chiefs. At the center of the memo scandal, ambassador Hussain Haqqani has been sending constant updates on his Twitter account since after arriving in Islamabad.
8. Marvi Memon (marvi_memon)
Marvi Memon is a former member of the National Assembly of Pakistan and the most followed Twitter politician in the local sphere with 40,936 followers. She started her career as a banker at Citibank Pakistan then launched her own business and became the youngest CEO of a multinational firm. She served as Member of Parliament from March 2008 to June 2011. Her strength is her close contact with grassroots, youth and discriminated populations of society in all provinces and territories of Pakistans.
Visit her website at http://marvimemon.com/
9. Ali Zafar (AliZafarforu)
Ali Zafar is a Pakistani musician, composer, song writer, singer, actor, painter and model, popular for his music and now movies. He is an active user of different online social networking platforms with 895,000 likes on his Facebook page and 102,162 followers on Twitter.
10. Wasim Akram (wasimakramlive)
Wasim Akram is a former Pakistani cricketer and regarded as one of the best fast bowlers in the history of criket. Since retiring from cricket, Akram has worked and taken up commentary for television networks and can currently be seen as a sports commentator for ESPN Star Sports and ARY Digital among others.