Shazia has always loved sports. When she was in school, she started thinking what she could do to get a job in the field of sports. Being paid to watch sport as well as write and speak about it seemed the best option, so she decided that’s what she would do – that simple! As she wanted to be a sports reporter, therefore, after completing education she joined Dawn Newspaper in 2001 as a Senior Staff Reporter in Karachi, Sindh. Shazia successfully covered sports events such as football, field hockey, and women’s cricket as her beats and produced written or broadcast reports but then she switched to city reporting. As a City Reporter, she has several interesting and exclusive stories to her credit. One of these was when she headed into bandit country to interview a bandit with a price on his head. He was building a school because he didn’t want other children to end up with the same fate as him. Shazia is the recipient of several journalism awards including five Agahi Awards and one Humanitarian Award from the International Committee of the Red Cross. In 2015, she was selected for the International Visitor’s Leadership Programme. It is the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ premier professional exchange program. The IVLP builds mutual understanding between the U.S. and other nations through short-term visits to the U.S. for current and emerging foreign leaders.Shazia successfully completed her program and returned to Pakistan. In 2015, she also started teaching journalism as a visiting faculty at a private university in Karachi. She then served in the governing body of the Karachi Press Club in 2018 and 2019. She was also Vice president of the Karachi Press Club in 2021. Currently, she is serving in the governing body of the club. As a senior journalist, who has worked as a sub-editor for Dawn Magazines i.e. Children’s Weekly Young World, the literary magazine Books & Authors (which she also headed from 2005 to 2007) and EOS as well as the newspaper along with sports reporting and city reporting, she tries her level best to be available for any kind of guidance to my juniors, especially women.#PUAN#WHM
