Reporting Ethnic Conflict in Karachi: Analysis through the Perspective of War and Peace Journalism ABSTRAC

Abstract

This study examines the role of national media of Pakistan in terms of escalation/ de-escalation of the ethno-political
conflict in Karachi. The researchers analyzed both print media and electronic media (television) for this purpose. Two leading
television channels (Geo TV and Dunya TV), two English dailies (Dawn and The Nation) and two Urdu dailies (daily
Jang and daily Express) were selected. Only the front and back pages of the four newspapers and 9 o’clock newscasts of the
two TV channels were analyzed for a period of one year ((November 01, 2012- 31st October 2012)). The data were
collected through the operationalization of dichotomous variables of an original contextual model developed by the
researchers.