Arman Sabir
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Arman Sabir is an investigative journalist associated with the widely circulated English language daily newspaper Dawn in Pakistan. Born in Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan, he did his masters in mass communications from Urdu College, affiliated with the University of Karachi. He has written various investigative articles on criminal justice system in Pakistan. He also writes on the issues of national identity cards, transport, and law enforcement agencies. He started his career in 1994 from a wire service, Pakistan Press International (PPI) and later joined the newspaper in 1999. He has been elected thrice a member of the Governing Body of the Karachi Press Club.
Sabir has covered one of the worst cyclones that hit the coastal areas of southern Pakistan province of Sindh in 1999.
He went to the United States in the year 2004 as an observer of the presidential election campaign. He visited swing states such as Texas, Washington, and Ohio. He also went to Washington D.C. and Massachusetts. The visit was arranged by the State Department.
He has visited the south-eastern district of Khokhrapar bordering Indian Rajasthan in February 2006 where a new railway station has been built on the Pakistan side at zero point. He has written on the revival of railway link between India and Pakistan after a pause of 40 years.
Recently, he has been assigned education beat.
