KARACHI: The All Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) has announced the winners of its 22nd Journalist and Advertising Awards which will be distributed by Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi at a ceremony on Jan 15.

Those selected for the awards are: best investigative report — [jointly] Razeshta Sethna, Monthly Herald and Noorilhuda, Monthly Newsline; best investigative report (business/economic) — [jointly] Mubarak Zeb Khan, Daily Dawn and Nudrat Kamal, Tooba Nadeem and Zehra Nabi, Newsline; best investigative report (environmental/conservation/gender) — [jointly] Razia Fareed, Daily Jang and Zehra Nabi, Newsline; best column award (English) — Syed Saadat Ali, Dawn; best column award (Urdu) — Yasir Pirzada, Jang; best column award (provincial language) — Asad Chandio, Daily Awami Awaz; best feature award (English) — Noorilhuda, Newsline; best feature award (Urdu) — Muhammad Akram Khan, Jang; best feature award (provincial language) — Murli Dhar, Awami Awaz; best cover story (periodicals) — Imitaz Gul and Noorilhuda, Newsline; best cartoon — Khaliq Khan Paki, Jang; best photograph — Muhammad Azeem, Daily Express; best illustration (periodicals) — Adnan Faisal, Monthly Brands Magazine.

According to a press release issued on Friday, the panel of judges consisted of prominent writers and intellectuals, namely Ameena Saiyid, Prof Dr Nisar Zuberi, Babar Ayaz and Rafia Taj, Prof Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat, Dr Mugheesuddin Sheikh, Owais Aslam Ali, Prof Tauseef Ahmed Khan and Vali Ram Vallabh, Dr Fahmida Hussain, Yaqoob Mughal, Seemeen Naghmana, Abid Ali Syed and Prof Shahida Kazi.

The panel of judges for advertising awards comprised Ejaz Wasay, Durriya Kazi, Talib S. Karim and the late Syed Sultan Hassan.

The panel selected M/s Midas (Pvt) Ltd for five awards — best business performance award, special business performance award (regional dailies) and special business performance award (metro B dailies), best performance award for private sector client (Bahria Town) and best performance award for public sector client (Benazir Income Support Programme).

M/s Orient Advertising (Pvt) Ltd was given the special business performance award for periodicals.

The awards in the creative categories are: best newspaper ad — M/s Manhattan Int’l (Pvt) Ltd for its ad of Standard Chartered Bank; best periodical (magazine) ad — no entry qualified; best campaign — M/s Adcom (Pvt) Ltd for its ad of Al Karam;

best public service campaign — M/s IAL Communications (Pvt) Ltd for its ad of Depilex Smile Again Foundation.

Published in Dawn, January 6th, 2018

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