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Arman Sabir is an investigative Pakistani journalist associated with the BBC Urdu Service, based in the capital city of Islamabad since 2009 when he was promoted to producer. He had joined the BBC Urdu Service as a correspondent in August 2007, based in the commercial hub city of Karachi.
He was earlier affiliated with the widely circulated English language daily newspaper Dawn in Pakistan from 1999 to 2007. Born in Karachi the commercial hub of Pakistan, he got his masters degree in the Mass Communications from the University of Karachi.
Sabir has covered one of the worst cyclones that hit the coastal areas of southern Pakistan province of Sindh in 1999.
He highlighted the gathering of female sex workers at a Karachi's hotel organised by an NGO to create awareness among them about safe sex. It was the first such program organised for female sex workers in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, where prostitution is illegal.
He has visited the south-eastern district bordering Indian Rajasthan in February 2006 where a new railway station has been built on thePakistanside at zero point. He has written on the revival of railway link between India and Pakistan after a pause of 40 years.
He has been elected four times as a member of the Governing Body of the Karachi Press Club.
He went to the United States in the year 2004 to report on the US Presendential Election Campaign.
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