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Shah Zaman Khan: R E S U M E SHAH ZAMAN KHAN Floor # 05, Badshah Tower, Khyber Super Market, near Qayyum Stadium, Peshawar Saddar, Peshawar Cantt: 25000 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Office: 92-91-5287868, 5287895 Fax: 92-91-5287719 Cell: 92-301-8250978, 92-300-5892308 E-mail: shahzaman99@yahoo.com shahzaman99@hotmail.com Domicile: Mardan city (Khyber Pakhtunkhawa) Sex: Male Marital Status: Married Date of Birth: 01.03.1976 N.I.C NO: 6101-1278229-7 Languages: Pashto; Urdu; & English Experience: Nine Years JOB (S) Geo TV [Feb 2003 till to date] Assignment Editor/Reporter Working as Assignment Editor at Geo TV, Peshawar [North Western Pakistan] Bureau, and responsible for all the breaking news, news packages and all kind of live and routine coverage of the events. Responsible for the arrangements and deployment of all the teams for the coverage of events. Responsible for assigning duties, stories and news packages. Also worked as Reporter and covered events and filed stories about the same and produce news packages, features and short documentaries on a wide range of issues like educational, political, social issues, with spatiality of refuges issue in Tribal belt and other issues of human interest. Produce and direct small documentaries, use digital PD150 Camera, edit documentaries on NLE machine, write scripts for my stories. Visited most of the parts of the Tribal Belt for making stories. Daily Khyber Mail International [Nov 2001-Oct 2003] Staff Reporter/Sub-Editor Serving as Staff Reporter the daily Khyber Mail International. I was responsible for attending events and happenings and filing stories (in English) on the same, besides stories on politics, health, education, covered NWFP Assembly, besides doing many investigative stories. Many of the stories, investigative and analytical pieces on a wide range of issues. Also served as a sub-editor and edited stories for city and districts and front pages of the newspaper. Magazine Business Channel Peshawar [July 2000-June 2001] Sub-Editor/Writer Worked as sub-editor and wrote articles on business issues. The University News Bulletin (Peshawar University) [1999-2000] Reporter Filed stories of the educational events at University of Peshawar. AWARDS AND APPRECIATION 1. Obtained appreciation letters and best awards on special coverage of the heinous earthquake on 05 Oct, 2005 in the history of Pakistan and Lawyer’s Movement against military dictatorship of General Pervez Musharraf in 2007 in Pakistan. 2- Award by NWFP Government, UNCIEF and WHO on active contribution and coverage in the field of immunization and other health issues on 28 Sep, 2009. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Degree Subject[s] University/Institute Year M.A [16th level] Journalism and Mass Communication Journalism Department University of Peshawar 2000 B.A [14th level] English Literature Islamia College Peshawar 1998 F. Sc [12th level] Pre-Medical Islamia College Peshawar 1997 S. S. C [10th level] Science GHS Sawal Dher, Mardan 1994 RESEARCH THESIS “Bridging the Information Gap: The case of SDNP, Pakistan” TRAININGS AND WORKSHOPS ATTENDED Workshop on the “Role of Information & Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Rural Development and inauguration of a Cyber Community Centre” at Al-Asar Academy, Usterzai Payan, Kohat. Workshop on Internet Access & Effective Searching Techniques for the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Peshawar. 4-days seminar on “NWFP Press Clubs: Role and Responsibilities”, arranged in collaboration with FES, IUCN, SDNP & Peshawar Press Club at Peshawar University Summer Camp, Baragali. ETC….. COMPUTER SKILLS MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, FrontPage) E-Commerce/Web Hosting &Web page Developing/Designing (Dream weaver, Flash, Adobe Photoshop, FrontPage HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, VB Script, CSS, C Language, SQL, Pearl, CFML, XML, ASP, and Java Applets) A+ Hardware/General Troubleshooting Internet Cool Edit Pro and Final Cut Pro REFERENCES 1. Imtiaz Ali, Analyst, Fellow Institute for Social Policy and Understanding [ISPU], Washington DC 001 203 444 1152 Email: imtiaz999@gmail.com 2. Mukhtar Ahmad Khan, Analyst AfPak Watch 703 577 6683, Arlington VA, USA Email: mahmadllc@yahoo.com 3. Mr. Raheemullah Yusufzai Senior Journalist and Resident Editor, The News International Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan ++92-91-314-9022425 ++92-91-91-5276227 Email: rahimyusufzai@yahoo.com 4. Mr. Abdullah Jan Bureau Chief, Geo News, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan ++92-91-301-8581292 ++92-91-91-5252227 Email: abdullah.jan@geo.tv 5. Dr Shah Jahan Sayed, PhD (Münster, Germany) Professor, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Peshawar. Tel: ++92-91-9216833 Email: shahjehansayed@hotmail.com, shahjehansayed@gmail.com 6. Tahir Khan Editor NNI Islamabad Pakistan ++92-300-5276676 ++92-333-5283057 Email: tahirreporter@hotmail.com