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Ansar Abbasi is an investigative editor for one of the leading newspapers from Pakistan, The News International.
Abbasi was born in Murree and did his early education in his native village. Abbasi did his matriculation at Sir Syed School Rawalpindi. He then joined Government College Asghar Mall from where he completed his Intermediate and later graduated with a ‘Bachelors in Arts’ degree from the same college. He did his Masters at Quetta. He later earned another Masters degree from London.
After Masters in Mass Communication, Abbasi started his career as a professional journalist in 1991. His first stint was with an English language daily, The Democrat. Later, he worked for two months at Pakistan Times before eventually joining The News International of which he is now an editor.
Investigative articles
Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry
Ansar Abbasi was among the first to bring forth allegations against Chief Justice Iftikhar Choudhray for gross misconduct in 2002, accusing him for admitting his son Dr. Arsalan undermining all merits Primarily based on this allegation the establishment moved a reference to Supreme Judicial Council against Chief Justice Iftikhar Choudhry.
Pervez Musharraf
Abbasi has published work critical of the regime of former President Pervez Musharraf accusing him of building a multi-million rupee residence at Chak Shehzad, equipped with utilities at much cheaper rates with differential subsidized by the government.
He was critical of the former general for removing the Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Choudhry and submitting his case to the Supreme Judicial Council.
Maulana Fazlur Rehman
In November 2008, Abbasi published a story on the award of acres of military land worth millions of rupees to the family members of the leader of Jameat Ulmae Islam, Maulana Fazl ur Rehman. Abbasi alleged that the regime of the then president General Pervez Musharraf attempted to buy off Maulana's opposition to the General's assumption of two public offices at a time. The issue was silenced when Maulana Fazl ur Rahman publicly questioned how the multi-billion empire of Geo/Jang Group grew from a single room.
Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar
"Our Special Daughters", an investigative report by Ansar Abbasi in Daily News, found out that Justice Dogar's daughter Farah Hameed Dogar's examination paper for F.Sc. were reassessed in violation of a previous Supreme Court ruling. While the results of 201 candidates were revised, only for her were the examination papers re-marked and the numbers increased. In the other 200 cases, only errors in adding the total marks were corrected. The case later went on to the parliamentary committee for education.
Abbasi is alleged to have received death threats for which he blamed different groups, including those associated with the ruling coalition. His claims first appeared in The News on December 25, 2008
Umer Cheema, an investigative reporter, was abducted and tortured for six hours by a group of unidentified men. During his abduction, Cheema was warned to stop reporting against the government. The reporter also claimed one of the abductors saying if the criticisms against the ruling PPP kept going, Ansar Abbasi would be targeted next. However, it is widely thought that Umer Cheema abduction is done by military agencies as his main focus was criticizing the army.
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Source : Wikipedia
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