Pakistan: From Office Boy To Investigative Reporter

Pakistan: From Office Boy To Investigative Reporter 

Sher Ali Khalti Pakistan columnist Sher Ali Khalti has progressed significantly from filling in as an office kid to turning into an analytical correspondent in a Pakistan day by day. Picture Credit: Supplied

Islamabad: Sher Ali Khalti, staff journalist of an English day by day in Pakistan, is appreciative to God for his favorable luck.

In 2014 he was enlisted as an office kid in The News, Lahore, and his activity was principally to serve tea to the staff or get printouts of their articles.

Today, he is working in a similar association as analytical journalist and his articles on aggressor outfit Jamat-ul-Dawa (JuD) and its Shariah courts, respect killings, Chotu pack (a famous group of hijackers in Southern Punjab) and missing individuals have been featured in the paper.

To him, it resembles a fantasy work out.

Hailing from Rojhan, a remote and immature town in Rajanpur area of Southern Punjab, Sher Ali Khalti lost his dad during the 2005 floods in the Indus.

Every one of their things and cotton crops were demolished. "I was doing my graduation around then. My dad inhaled his rearward before me. I can in any case recollect that I conveyed him on my shoulders and swam right through the water," reviewed Khalti.

In light of his dad's passing, he was unable to finish his graduation and the family was utilized by a neighborhood landowner. Other than dealing with the land, he began giving educational costs.

At that point like the majority of the informed Southern Punjab youth, he went to Lahore in 2010 looking for a vocation and to finish his investigations.

While living in Lahore, he finished his graduation. It took him six years to finish what ought to have taken just two, yet he didn't lose heart. He at that point finished his Masters in English from Punjab University, Lahore, and later, Masters in Mass Communication from National University of Modern Languages (NUML).

Fortune favored him in 2014 when he visited the paper office for a vocation. Khalti says he was urgent to such an extent that he was intellectually arranged for the activity of a security watch. Be that as it may, as it would turn out, the workplace director let him know there was an opportunity for an office kid/collaborator. He took it up.

Be that as it may, how he exchanged over to announcing from an office kid again has a fantasy like component.

Those were the days when ruffians of the Chotu Gang were striking pieces of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. They grabbed the rich and kept them in Rajanpur zone.

At some point, while serving tea, Khalti heard the manager talking over telephone to his journalist approaching frantically for some selective piece on Chotu group.

Being a local of the region and with certain connections there, Khalti offered that he could meet the posse head Chotu and did it. It was a restrictive story and later, law-implementation organizations and security powers reached Khalti for the job of a go-between.

In 2016, he officially joined the paper as journalist. Today, Khalti is carrying on with a glad existence with his family - two kids and spouse - in Lahore. Despite the fact that not very generously compensated, he is getting a charge out of the notoriety of a decent insightful correspondent. He has led preparing workshop on Counter Violence Extremism (CVE) and Counter Terrorism(CT) and has been an individual from the Fact Finding Mission on Kartarpur Corridor established by Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP).