Pajhwok Afghan News
Afghanistan's largest independent news agency, founded in 2004. Publishes national news in English, Pashto, and Dari covering politics, security, and the economy.
Pajhwok Afghan News at a glance
- Country
- Afghanistan
- Region
- South Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- News agency
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- pajhwok.com ↗
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Is Pajhwok Afghan News left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Pajhwok Afghan News is listed as Center on Crosswire: news agencies supply reporting to outlets across the whole spectrum, which rewards a deliberately neutral news style.
Read Pajhwok Afghan News beside another title from Afghanistan and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Agency copy is written to be resold to outlets across the spectrum, so Pajhwok Afghan News is a useful baseline: compare its plain account of an event with how partisan titles in Afghanistan headline the same wire story, and the framing each adds becomes visible by subtraction. Because Pajhwok Afghan News is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Afghanistan either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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Where Pajhwok Afghan News sits in Afghanistan's press
Pajhwok Afghan News is one of 5 outlets tracked in Afghanistan, and one of 2 news agencies among them — the other being Khaama Press. By outlets tracked, Afghanistan ranks 18th of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 26 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Pajhwok Afghan News outside Afghanistan, starting with South Asia, are Yonhap News (South Korea), Focus Taiwan (Taiwan), Montsame (Mongolia) and VietnamPlus (Vietnam). Opening one of them beside Pajhwok Afghan News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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