Iftikhar Ahmad (journalist)

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Iftikhar Ahmad
Iftikhar Ahmad, the second person from right
Born	Iftikhar Ahmad (1950-11-04) 4 November 1950 (age 73) Rawalpindi - Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Other names	Iftikhar Ahmed
Occupation(s)	Broadcaster, journalist, and anchor
Years active	1984 – Present
Notable credit(s)	Has headed the Election Cell for Jang Group (1988–97) Geo News (2002 – 2014) BOL News (2014 – 2015) Dunya News (2015 – 2016) Geo News (2016 –2018)
Relatives	Maulana Hifz-ur-Rehman (grandfather)[1]

Iftikhar Ahmad (Urdu: افتخار احمد; born 4 November 1950) is a Pakistani research journalist and a political activist.

He started his career as a journalist in a Newspaper named Daily Aftab. He has worked for Jang group for almost 34 years. He introduced the concept of crisped learned interviews. He also presented JANG forum to depict current affairs of country in the form of program Awaam ki Adalat, Badal do, Aap ki Adalat, Zara Sochiye. He also introduced the method of gathering polling results along with further assembling and transmission. Moreover, he trained many young journalists who are now serving different big media platforms. He covered Afghan War for Sunday Magazine of JANG. This was the first time, this war was covered by an urdu newspaper. He introduced Pakistan’s one of a kind interview talk show ‘Jawab Deyh’ in which he documented many historical interviews and uncovered many important aspects of history. Along with this, he introduced personal life interviews of national leaders. His Programme "Great Debate" on National issues along with Hamid was one of the most high rated current affairs programme of the history. These programmes left a deep impact on Pakistani Politics. He interviewed many including Parvez Musharraf, Benazir Bhutto, Justice Naseem Hassan Shah and many others.

Iftikhar Ahmad has history of hustle with pharaohs of politics, he supported the notion ‘One man, one vote’ He had been captured under dictatorial regime from 1969-1970. He was one of the founding members of Pakistan People’s Party. He had been advisor of students and labors.

He believed in social justice, welfare of the common people under the slogan of democracy. He wanted to demolish university ordinance and wanted to put student unions back to their places.

Iftikhar Ahmad is a left wing political activist who is known for his blatant political analysis, his stances for citizens and the reforms and efforts he made for public welfare. He had thorough research on elections and been working on it for years now. Iftikhar is currently working as Director Special Project and Election Cell under SAMAA news network.