Akhtar Jamal
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Akhtar Jamal is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Pakistan Press Agency(PPA) and Tele-Visual Infolink. He is also a Special Correspondent
Correspondent
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 of Bridges TV, USA and Channel News Asia (CNA-Singapore).

Akhtar Jamal also writes exclusivley on regional affairs for Pakistan Observer
Pakistan Observer
The Pakistan Observer is an English-language daily newspaper published in Islamabad, Pakistan.-Circulation and publication:Although not in the league of Dawn or The News International  – Pakistan's two other widely read English-language newspapers – it is popular among its...

. Mr. Jamal also edits the weekly publication of Pakistan Observer's "Economy Watch".

Background

Akhtar Jamal is a senior journalist
Journalist
A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

 with more than two decades of professional experience. He has worked for Jang Group of Newspapers
Jang Group of Newspapers
Jang Group of Newspapers is a subsidiary of the Independent Media Corporation. It has its headquartered in Printing House, Karachi...

 for over a decade and represented several international top news organizations and electronic media
Electronic media
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. Akhtar Jamal has also written several hundreds articles and analysis on regional situation and is specialized on Central Asia
Central Asia
Central Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...

n and Middle East
Middle East
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 strategic affairs.

Akhtar Jamal has traveled widely and attended dozens of Summit Meetings of different regional and international organizations including OIC, ECO
Economic Cooperation Organization
The Economic Cooperation Organization is an intergovernmental organization involving seven Asian and three Eurasian nations, part of the South-central Asian Union. It provides a platform to discuss ways to improve development and promote trade, and investment opportunities. The ECO is an ad hoc...

, NATO, SAARC etc. He also speaks more than six foreign languages and specializes in regional political and geo-strategic developments.

Pakistan Press Agency (PPA)

Pakistan Press Agency (PPA) was established in 1990 in Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

 by Mr. Akhtar Jamal (who served several reputed international news organizations for more than ten years in Ankara
Ankara
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, Vienna
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 and Beirut
Beirut
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) as its Chief Executive and Mr. M. N. Deen, (who had retired as director of Press & Information Department, Government of Pakistan) as its managing editor
Editor
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. (Unfortunately Mr. Deen expired in 1998).

Initially PPA started its work with Jang Group of Newspapers for which Mr. Jamal had already worked for years.

On April 30, 1990 PPA established its Islamabad Bureau office which was inaugurated By Mr. Jamal and attended by the founder and the then Editor-in-Chief of Jang Group of Newspapers, Late Mir Khalil ur Rahman. The ceremony was attended by two other federal ministers and several prominent journalists, diplomat
Diplomat
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s and VIP
VIP
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s.

PPA gained popularity during Iraq
Iraq
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i occupation of Kuwait
Kuwait
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 and the 1991 First Gulf War due to massive coverage with its correspondents in Middle East particularly in Sydney
Sydney
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, Melbourne
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, Ankara, Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, Beirut, Tehran
Tehran
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, Cairo
Cairo
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 and Baghdad
Baghdad
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.

More one hundred thousand stories of PPA have already been published during last one decade particularly in Karachi
Karachi
Karachi is the largest city, main seaport and the main financial centre of Pakistan, as well as the capital of the province of Sindh. The city has an estimated population of 13 to 15 million, while the total metropolitan area has a population of over 18 million...

 newspapers. Daily Dawn also published several PPA exclusive stories as its main lead.

Apart from more than a dozen Urdu
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...

 newspapers, several English
English language
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 dailies, including Pakistan Observer
Pakistan Observer
The Pakistan Observer is an English-language daily newspaper published in Islamabad, Pakistan.-Circulation and publication:Although not in the league of Dawn or The News International  – Pakistan's two other widely read English-language newspapers – it is popular among its...

 (Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

), The News International
News International
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 (Karachi), Jang London, Frontier Post
Frontier Post
The only English-language newspaper distributed through Pakistan and Afghanistan collectively, The Frontier Post is based in Peshawar, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, previously known as the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan....

 (Peshawar
Peshawar
Peshawar is the capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and the administrative center and central economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan....

) and Daily Statesman published PPA stories.

In 1998 PPA published its first book “Who is Who in Pakistan” edited by Akhtar Jamal.
PPA has two main offices in Pakistan, Islamabad and Karachi.

Tele-Visual Infolink (TVI)

Tele-Visual Infolink (TVI) was established by Mr. Akhtar Jamal, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Pakistan Press Agency (PPA).

TVI serves as the only Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

i visual agency supplying visual clip
Video clip
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s to dozens of local and foreign TV networks.
TVI has established its own visual clipping bank and provides important video clips to a number of news and information agencies around the world. In Pakistan TVI operates mainly from its Islamabad
Islamabad
Islamabad is the capital of Pakistan and the tenth largest city in the country. Located within the Islamabad Capital Territory , the population of the city has grown from 100,000 in 1951 to 1.7 million in 2011...

 while it also maintains regional offices in all provincial capitals of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir
Azad Kashmir
Azad Jammu and Kashmir or Azad Kashmir for short, is the southernmost political entity within the Pakistani-administered part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir...

.
TVI also offer special coverage of international or regional meetings, seminars, exhibitions and lectures on Pakistan and regional affairs.

In year 2007 TVI published the most comprehensive Book & CD on Pakistani websites entitled as "Web Guide to Pakistan".

In year 2009 TVI brought out one of the most unique book on Media "PAKISTAN MEDIA & PR GUIDE".

On 14 August 2009 TVI launched a website entitled as "ViewPakistan.com". The main objective to launch "View Pakistan" is to promote Pakistan as a worldwide destination and create awareness about Pakistani culture, heritage, lifestyle and tourism among locals and foreigners.

TVI also conducts surveys and polls to ascertain public opinion on National issues as well as current and regional issues.

Publications

"Who is Who" - Year 1998

"Web Guide to Pakistan" - Year 2007

"Pakistan Media & PR Guide" - Year 2009

"Pakistan Business Guide" - Year 2011 (est.)

External links

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