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

Pakistan court grants 13-year-old to foster parents, citing child’s wellbeing

Lahore High Court emphasizes that the child’s wishes and well-being take precedence in custody disputes

How Lahore is finally improving its toxic smog

Dr Imran Hamid Sheikh, Director General of Punjab’s EPA, shares how data-driven strategies, AI-based industrial monitoring, and dust control are changing Lahore’s AQI

Boiler explosion in Pakistan factory kills 15

Rescue officials say seven people were also injured during the incident after a boiler blast caused a factory collapse in Faisalabad

Man sentenced to death in Pakistan for killing 20-year-old wife

Judge also gives life terms to Zehra’s mother-in-law and brother-in-law; three others acquitted

Two years after Jaranwala church burnings: no convictions, no justice

Survivors still live with fear, rebuilding lives while justice remains out of reach.

Police say five killed as religious group protests in northeastern Pakistan

Protesters attacked officers with stones, batons and petrol bombs before opening fire, says Punjab police chief