Pakistan Link

Pakistani newspaper

Pakistan Link is a Pakistani weekly newspaper based in Anaheim, California, United States.^[1]^[2] The newspaper also has a version published in Urdu, called the Urdu Link. The newspaper Pakistan Link is distributed throughout the United States and is also sold through ethnic grocery stores in the US and Canada.^[3]^[2]

News coverage of events in Pakistan

A prominent Pakistani politician Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on 27 December 2007 in Pakistan and this news was also covered by a California newspaper, Long Beach Press Telegram where its reporter interviewed many local people from among the 40,000 strong Pakistani American local community including a regular newspaper columnist from Pakistan Link newspaper, Nayyer Ali. Long Beach Press Telegram then used Nayyer Ali's quotes to write up their news article.^[1]

Staff and columnists

Arif Zaffar Mansuri - President and Managing Editor
Akhtar Mahmud Faruqui - Editor
Nayyer Ali - Columnist^[4]
Dr. S. A. Hussain - Columnist
Abdus Sattar Ghazali - Reporter at Large
Dr. Ghulam M. Haniff - Columnist
S. Arif Hussaini - Columnist
Mowahid Shah - Columnist
Dr. Mahjabeen Islam - Columnist

References

^ ^a ^b South Bay Pakistanis shocked by killing (in 2007 of Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan) Long Beach Press Telegram, Published 28 December 2007, Retrieved 26 November 2017
^ ^a ^b Pakistan Link (newspaper) on GoogleBooks website Retrieved 26 November 2017
^ Pakistan Link (newspaper) distributed in the US and Canada - info on GoogleBooks website Retrieved 26 November 2017
^ Profile of Pakistan Link newspaper columnist, Nayyer Ali, on Greater Los Angeles Area Mensa (GLAAM) website Published 16 February 2007, Retrieved 26 November 2017