The APNS has announced the winners of 18th APNS Journalist Awards for the period 2005-06, which will be given at the APNS Award Ceremony.
The Panel of Judges for 18th APNS Journalist Award consisted of the prominent writers and intellectuals namely, Justice (former) Nasir Aslam Zahid, Farhad Zaidi, Dr Shahjehan Syed, Chairman, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Peshawar University; Professor Tauseef Ahmed Khan, Federal Urdu University; Mehtab Akbar Rashi, Executive Director, Eye Television Network Ltd, Karachi; Ameena Sayed, Managing Director, Oxford University Press; Murtaza Solangi, Director General, Pakistan Broadcasting Corp, Islamabad; prominent intellectual and writers Bakhtiar Ahmed, A. B. Shahid, Qamar Shahbaz and Sirajul Haq Advocate.
The Panel selected the following awards: The Best General Investigative Report, Syed Shoaib Hasan, Monthly Herlad, Karachi, and Intekhab Amir, Monthly Herald, Karachi; Best Investigative Report (Business/Economic) Ayesha Siddiqa, Monthly Newsline, Karachi; Best Investigative Report (Development/Environment), Noman Ahmed, Daily Dawn, Karachi; Best Scoop, Ghulam Hasnain, Monthly Newsline, Karachi; Best Column Award (English), Mahir Ali, Monthly Newsline, Karachi; Best Column Award (Urdu), Tariq Mahmood Mian, Daily Nawq-i-Waqt, Karachi, and Muhammad Bilal Ghouri, Daily Mashriq, Peshawar; Best Column Award (Provincial Language), Murtaza Siyal, Daily Ibrat, Hyderabad; Best Feature Award (English), Ziad Zafar, Monthly Neweline, Karachi; Best Feature Award (Urdu), Rizwan Ahmed Tariq, Daily Jang, Karachi; Best Feature Award (Provincial Language), Humerah Noor, Fortnightly Ibrat Magazine, Hyderabad; Best Article Award, Narjis Ara Malik, Daily Jang, Karachi; Best Cartoon, Muhammad Zahoor, Daily Times, Lahore, and Khaliq Khan Paki, Daily Jang, Karachi; Best Photograph Award Qazi Usman Hussain, Daily Express, Islamabad.
Panel of Judges Chairman and APNS President Mujib-ur-Rahman Shami has decided that in the General Investigative Report, Best Column Urdu and Best Cartoon, both the entrants secured equal marks will be given the awards jointly.-PR