Diplomatic Bubbles: Balochistan becoming next Achilles’’Heel
Region: Pakistan
Balochistan becoming next Achilles’’Heel Diplomatic Bubbles Saeed Minhas Islamabad: It does not matter how bad is the situation in Balochistan and how inconsiderately we have neglected Baloch lands and peopl... more
Views: 1010Diplomatic Bubbles: US-Pakistan inching towards plausible solutions
Region: Pakistan
US-Pakistan inching towards plausible solutions Diplomatic Bubbles Saeed Minhas Islamabad: Entire diplomatic fraternity is curious to find out how Prime Minister Gilani will escape the latest notice of indictment from S... more
Views: 705Press Gallery: Cat & mouse game continues
Region: Pakistan
Cat & mouse game continues Press Gallery Saeed Minhas Islamabad: The limbo over 20th amendment seems to have gone into a never-ending phase for Prime Minister Gilani as for the second running day he kept waiting for Cha... more
Views: 514Press Gallery: 20th amendment: Who gets the better bargain?
Region: Pakistan
Press Gallery 20th amendment: Who gets the better bargain? Saeed Minhas Islamabad: The beleaguered government of Mr. Gilani seems to have agreed to majority of the demands of Nawaz League to ensure that 28 provi... more
Views: 479Press Gallery: Engineered Economy of Pakistan
Region: Pakistan
Engineered Economy of Pakistan Press Gallery Saeed Minhas Islamabad: Lack of governance or bad governance, no matter how we look at it sounds synonymous but in reality what one can witness from the ongoing parliamentary... more
Views: 458Diplomatic Bubbles: Panetta gives further spin to Pak-US relations
Region: Pakistan
Diplomatic Bubbles Panetta spins Pak-US relations in further spin Saeed Minhas Islamabad: A definite time-line of withdrawal from Afghanistan plus the possibility of Israeli attack on Iran coming from US Defense... more
Views: 792Press Gallery: Hussain Haqqani leaves abroad under another NRO?
Region: Pakistan
Hussain Haqqani leaves abroad under another NRO? Press Gallery Saeed Minhas Islamabad: Things continue to shape up behind the scene between Friendly Opposition and feisty coalition leaders over the issue of saving their... more
Views: 724Press Gallery: Judiciary continues to eclipse the minds
Region: Pakistan
Judiciary continues to eclipse the minds Press Gallery Saeed Minhas Islamabad: All eyes and minds are set on the appearance of Prime Minister Gilani before the supreme court in the contempt of court case as two opposing... more
Views: 402Press Gallery: Politics of Eyewash
Region: Pakistan
Press Gallery Politics of Eyewash Saeed Minhas Islamabad: In the on-going tug of war between Khaki and politician-led corporate entities or should we call it parliament and the uniformed establishment, parliamentarians ... more
Views: 434Press Gallery: Another act of Defiance or..........
Region: Pakistan
Another act of defiance or …… Press Gallery Saeed Minhas Islamabad: Custodians of supremacy of parliament over the other institutions want to spend most of their time and energies on collecting the windfal... more
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Saeed Ahmed Minhas is currently the Contributing Editor with the Frontier Post besides being the Director of a Media Consultancy Firm Wavelink (www.wavelink.org). Recently he relinquished charge as Resident Editor of Daily Times, Islamabad, a Media Times Publications where he was also looking after the group's Urdu language Daily Aajkal, Islamabad.
Saeed holds a post graduate degree from LSE, UK and besides being a uniquely equipped bi-lingual accomplished journalist has been involved with teaching at International Islamic University, Punjab University and Government College Lahore and served as a teaching assistant at Cambridge University Resource Centre, UK. His engagements with the developmental sector are a testament to his versatility as he has done various assignments as consultant in the fields of advocacy, monitoring & evaluation, communication strategy, documentary making, digital presentations, use of social media, translations and lead resource person with various local and international NGOs, such as UNDP, Actionaid, Rural Development, etc. His latest assignments included training for journalists on development journalism and gender issues with Action Aid Pakistan in Bagh and disaster/conflict reporting with UNDP. He has appeared as analyst on CTV (Canadian), VOA, CNN, BBC, One World, Bussiness Plus, Rohi TV, Times Now (India), PTV, other local n regional channels and Radio stations. He has written several articles, investigative stories and political, social commentaries.
He was honoured with British Council Chevening Scholar for 1998-99 session and was part of the International Center for Journalist (ICFJ) Election 2008 program.
Starting his career with Daily The Frontier Post in 1988 he has extensively covered various events like elections, war exercises, insurgencies, army operations and written extensively on social, political, trade, Indo-Pak relations, foreign policy, governance, terrorism and political situationers/press galleries.
He has been the Group Editor of Din Media Group (2007-08) managing its Urdu Daily Din, English Daily Sun, and being the founding executive producer of the DIN News 24-hour news channel. He has also had shorts stints at PTV, English daily The Post, weekly English Vista, a contributor for weekly Friday Times, Gulf News, The Nation, The News on Friday and worked with Daily The Blade, Toledo, US as an attachment from ICFJ during 2008 Presidential elections.
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