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Munizae Jahangir is an award winning TV journalist and documentary filmmaker, currently working at Dawn Media group. She was an Executive Producer, Anchor and Special Correspondent at Pakistan’s Express media group, where she reported and anchored for its Urdu tv channel and contributes towards the English daily newspaper, The Express Tribune. She was NDTV's correspondent in Pakistan from 2004-2010 and from 2013-2014. She has previously anchored current affairs primetime shows, called “Pakistan Poochta Hain’; an audience based debate show;“Siyah Sufaid”; a show on Afghan Pakistan relations, “Sarhad keh Uss Paar”; “FACE OFF” interview based show tailored on BBC’s Hard Talk. Jahangir has focused on conflict areas and has produced and directed an award winning documentary on the war in Afghanistan, called “Search for Freedom” aired on ABC;“Across the LOC: Kashmir,” (a documentary on Indian Administered Kashmir). She has hosted debates between India and Pakistan.  Jahangir’s high profile interviews include US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator John Kerry, former Prime Ministers of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, Yousaf Gilani,Prime Minister Mohammad Nawaz Sharif, Sanam Bhutto, former President Asif Zardari,Mr. Imran Khan, MQM leader Altaf Hussain and Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti,Afghan Taliban leader Akbar Agha and Indian politician Jaswant Singh. Jahangir completed her BA in Political Science from McGill University and her MA in Media Studies from the New School University in New York. She is an alumni of Harvard’s Executive Program at the Kennedy school.Some of her work for NDTV includes documentaries,“The Baloch Battlefield”; “Pakistan: The War Within”(a series of half hour documentaries on the militancy in Pakistan’s North West and South Punjab).Jahangir was honored as a young global leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008.She is the co-founder of South Asian Women in Media.