Laiba Zainab

Laiba Zainab

Correspondent

Laiba Zainab is an award-winning journalist with nearly a decade of experience in digital media. She has received the DW & CEJ-IBA Data Journalism Award and the top digital media prize at the National Media Fellowship. At NUKTA, she covers underreported stories on health, crime, and social justice.

Fields of Expertise

Digital media, Social Issues, Feminism, Crime

Education

Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan (BZU)/ Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi

Past Organizations

The Current, University of Central Punjab (UCP), Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), Sujag, Naya Daur, City 42, Channel 24, Rohi

Death toll rises to 14 in Lahore tuition center roof collapse
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Death toll rises to 14 in Lahore tuition center roof collapse

Punjab health minister says 14 children were brought dead to hospital as police detain two and investigate collapse

Police arrest cleric accused of beating 14-year-old seminary student to death in Pakistan
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Police arrest cleric accused of beating 14-year-old seminary student to death in Pakistan

Pakistani police arrested a cleric accused of torturing a 14-year-old seminary student to death in Lahore

Minor girl killed in Chakwal died of multiple gunshot wounds, postmortem finds
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Minor girl killed in Chakwal died of multiple gunshot wounds, postmortem finds

Hania Ahmed's postmortem confirms 11 injury marks and hypovolemic shock as cause of death. A CCD officer has been arrested and a JIT formed to probe the Chakwal incident

CCD officer arrested over killing of Australian-Pakistani girl in Chakwal
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CCD officer arrested over killing of Australian-Pakistani girl in Chakwal

A CCD officer has been arrested over the fatal shooting of nine-year-old Hania Ahmed, killed when officers opened fire on her family's car in Chakwal

Man arrested after acid attack injures six in Lahore's Rang Mahal area
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Man arrested after acid attack injures six in Lahore's Rang Mahal area

A man lured six people with the promise of Zamzam water before throwing acid at them in Lahore's Rang Mahal. Police arrested the suspect shortly after the attack

Pakistan police rescue woman held in chains for 12 years in Bahawalnagar
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Pakistan police rescue woman held in chains for 12 years in Bahawalnagar

Pakistani police rescued a 32-year-old woman who had been chained in a room for 12 years after her family forcibly ended her court marriage to a man of another caste

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