Pajhwok Afghan News

Pajhwok Afghan News
Pashto: پژواک خبري اژانس
Dari: آژانس خبرى پژواک
Type	Independent news agency
Founded	2003 ; by Danish Karokhel
Motto	Reflecting the Truth
Headquarters	Kabul, Afghanistan
Area	Afghanistan
Owner	Danish Karokhel
Key people	Danish Karokhel
Launch date	March 2004
Official website	pajhwok.com
Language	English, Dari, Pashto

Pajhwok Afghan News (Pashto: پژواک خبري اژانس) (Dari: آژانس خبرى پژواک) is Afghanistan's largest independent news agency with its headquarters in Kabul.^[2]^[3]^[4] In addition to 24-hour general news reporting, it also publishes special investigative reports about important topics relating to Afghanistan, including political corruption.^[5]^[6]^[7] 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.^[8]

Owned and operated entirely by Afghans, Pajhwok Afghan News claims to have no political affiliations.^[8] Its founder and director is Danish Karokhel. Pajhwok is a Pashto word^[9] meaning reflection or echo in both Pashto and Dari.^[8]^[10]

^ "Danish Karokhel". Reporters Without Borders. January 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ Committee to Protect Journalists (2009). Attacks on the Press in 2008: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Committee to Protect Journalists. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-944823-28-6. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ "Unlikely Stories, or the Making of an Afghan News Agency". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ Peter Eichstaedt (February 2009). First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army. Chicago Review Press. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-56976-260-8.
^ "MEHWAR: Smuggling of Ventilators Discussed". TOLOnews. June 23, 2020. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
^ "Taliban Controls 52% of Territory in Afghanistan: Survey". TOLOnews. February 13, 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
^ "RSF Honors Afghan Female Reporter For 'Courageous Journalism'". TOLOnews. June 15, 2020. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
^ ^a ^b ^c About us. Pajhwok Afghan News.
^ https://www.qamosona.com
^ "Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad, Director and Deputy Director, Pajhwok Afghan News". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

[1] "Danish Karokhel". Reporters Without Borders. January 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

[Journalists2009-2] Committee to Protect Journalists (2009). Attacks on the Press in 2008: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists. Committee to Protect Journalists. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-944823-28-6. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

[3] "Unlikely Stories, or the Making of an Afghan News Agency". Pulitzer Center. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

[Eichstaedt2009-4] Peter Eichstaedt (February 2009). First Kill Your Family: Child Soldiers of Uganda and the Lord's Resistance Army. Chicago Review Press. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-1-56976-260-8.

[5] "MEHWAR: Smuggling of Ventilators Discussed". TOLOnews. June 23, 2020. Retrieved 2022-07-20.

[6] "Taliban Controls 52% of Territory in Afghanistan: Survey". TOLOnews. February 13, 2021. Retrieved 2022-07-20.

[7] "RSF Honors Afghan Female Reporter For 'Courageous Journalism'". TOLOnews. June 15, 2020. Retrieved 2022-07-20.

[PAN-8] About us. Pajhwok Afghan News.

[9] ttps://www.qamosona.com

[10] "Danish Karokhel and Farida Nekzad, Director and Deputy Director, Pajhwok Afghan News". Committee to Protect Journalists. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

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