So, knowing all that, you can imagine how thrilled I was, after years of wanting to stay informed, when I stumbled upon The NewsRun, a daily newsletter that summarizes Pakistan’s major stories of the day.Īnam Khan, the founder and lead writer for the NewsRun, has lived half of her life in Pakistan and the other half in the United States. But opening Twitter to scroll and sift through jokes, memes, and hot takes is an extremely chaotic way to find news. More recently, I’ve followed major stories by following journalists and regular people on Twitter who live in the country and are reporting or are outspoken about news events. That’s common, I imagine, in lots of diasporas, but hard for me to swallow as a journalist. So with lots of shame, I’ve had to explain that while being Pakistani is a big part of my identity, I’m not well equipped to talk about Pakistani news.
#DAILY URDU NEWS TODAY FULL#
English-language coverage in Pakistan, a country with a news cycle as busy as the United States’, is widely available, but lacks the context a casual reader would need to understand the full impact of an issue. Urdu-language newspapers are available in some neighborhoods in major cities in the United States, but often (and rightfully) cover their local diaspora communities and are inaccessible to me because I can’t read Urdu very well.
#DAILY URDU NEWS TODAY TV#
My family had always had a satellite package that included PTV (owned by the Pakistan Television Corporation), Geo News, ARY News, and others until streaming made more channels more easily available.īut the Urdu spoken in TV news is much more formal than the Urdu I learned to speak at home, making it difficult to understand quick roundups and impossible to follow discussions, where interruptions and yelling are common. I used to help my grandfather load, the website of Pakistan’s most reputable newspaper, so he could read the news and catch up on cricket scores. I grew up in a household that follows Pakistani news every night. I’m first-generation Pakistani American and culturally, at least in the Pakistani diaspora, our main topics of conversation are politics, religion, food, and getting married.
I’ve always felt a particular guilt that, as a journalist, I’ve struggled to keep up with the news in Pakistan.
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