Shaheen Sehbai is a Pakistani journalist and the current Group Editor of daily English newspaper The News International. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and The News International ( is the second largest English language Newspaper in Pakistan. ^[1] He has also worked as a reporter for the Dawn newspaper in Washington D.C. and then later was became the editor for The News International in Islamabad. Dawn is Pakistan 's oldest best known and most widely-read English-language newspaper Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The News International ( is the second largest English language Newspaper in Pakistan. |name = Islamabad|native_name = |nickname = |settlement_type = Capital City |total_type But, he was forced to resign the post for not towing the line of General Pervez Musharraf government. General (ret Pervez Musharraf ( (born 11 August 1943 NI(M, HI(M, TBt, is the former Military dictator and President of However, recently he was again the made the group editor (senior most editor) of the second largest English daily The News.

On February 16, 2002, Sehbai let a story run that exposed government Pakistani ties with terrorist bombings in India (a story that also ran in The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune by the work of the reporter, not Sehbai). The Washington Post is the largest and most circulated Newspaper in Washington D The International Herald Tribune is a widely read English language international Newspaper The government immediately stopped its advertisements in The News International, and put inordinate pressure on the company to fire those involved in the creation and publishing of the story.

Because of the Daniel Pearl situation at the time, the Pakistani government was anxious to crush any rumors of connections to terrorism, and made a great deal of effort to censor any reporting that would suggest them. Daniel Pearl ( October 10, 1963 – February 1, 2002) was an American Journalist who was kidnapped and murdered in The News International was under constant pressure to tone down any stories that might show any sort of government corruption, and Sehbai had repeatedly fallen into trouble or punishment for running exposes. After the February 16th article, though, the government forced Sehbai to resign through immense financial pressure on The News International, and Sehbai was later accused of Arm Robbery by an employee of the Pakistan army headquarters. He eventually left for the United States, an expatriate out of disgust for the Musharraf government. Mr. Sehbai returned to America and started a web based newspaper, The South Asian Tribune in which he reported many cases of government and military corruption under Pakistan's Musharraf administration. In 2005 he announced that he was closing The South Asian Tribune after three years of service.

See also

• Mehmood Sham, Group Editor Daily Jang

References

Sources

• Machinations against Pakistani journalist living in the United States
• Interview with Shaheen Sehbai

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