Zafar Iqbal

Zafar Iqbal (Researcher, Journalist, Activist) Zafar Iqbal, founder of Press for Peace (PFP), is a peace and human rights activist. He did his MA (Media & Globalization) from Nottingham Trent University, UK. He also earned MA (Mass Communication) degree from the University of Punjab, Pakistan He started his career as a journalist in Muzaffarabad, the capital of one part of Disputed State of Jammu and Kashmi. He has been a passionate and ardent supporter of change in his social and political milieu. Highlighting the miseries of marginalized and voiceless elements of society, promoting peace and supporting various issues of human concern have been the major areas of Zafar’s contributions while working for a number of national and local dailies and media organisations. As a journalist, he has specifically been interested in patterns of globalization and

regionalization in contemporary South Asia. He has been in Switzerland, Norway and United Kingdom to disseminate philosophy and approach of his organisation. Zafar has also attended a number of international courses, seminars, workshops and conferences, where presenting himself as an activist and social mobilizer he highlighted violations of human rights and many other issues of human concern. He has been threatened many a times by extremist outfits for ‘collaborating’ international human rights groups and media persons. His role as a social worker after the catastrophic earthquake in 2005 was widely appreciated and acknowledged by different organisations, groups and agencies at local and international level. Since the inception of Press for Peace in 1999, he has devoted himself to the work of his organization. Contact details: Press for Peace( PFP) Bank Road, Muzaffarabad, Jammu and Kashmir Ph: 0092-58810 45457 Email: [email protected] [email protected]