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

Laiba Zainab

Fields of Expertise

Education

Past Organizations

Rescue boat tragedies deepen flood misery in Pakistan’s Punjab

A rescue boat capsized in Bahawalnagar District's Minchanabad as families ignored warnings, leaving two missing in floodwaters

Dam breach in Punjab city forces mass evacuations, floods farmland in Pakistan

Floodwaters from the breached Pharanay Dam in Jalalpur Pirwala rushed toward the city, prompting emergency evacuations

Woman and husband arrested for killing own family in Pakistan's Punjab

Victims found with throats slit in Jhelum district village home

Pakistan court acquits PTI’s Qureshi in 2023 riots case, jails senior leaders

PTI leaders Omar Sarfraz Cheema, Mian Mahmood ur Rasheed, Yasmin Rashid, and Ejaz Chaudhry each received 10-year sentences for torching a govt vehicle

Pakistan floods leave children without milk as families lose everything

Drinking water, food, milk, medicines and sanitary supplies for women are all in short supply, says aid worker

Flood devastation worsens in Pakistan’s Punjab province, South Punjab among worst-hit

Over 4 million people affected as Pakistan's largest province battles what officials call an 'unprecedented crisis'