Fakhar Durrani

Fakhar Durrani is a journalist with The News International, Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper. He is part of the news organization’s Investigation Cell, which reports in-depth and investigative stories, often in high-risk situations. He focuses on corruption and embezzlement in government departments, misuse of authority by government officials, tax evasion issues, health and education related topics, abuse of human rights, and other social issues. Recently he was part of 600 leading investigative journalists who collaborated with International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in the Pandora Papers investigations. During this collaboration, Durrani, along with one of his colleagues, unearthed millions of dollars offshore holdings of more than 700 Pakistanis which they secretly kept in tax havens. Fakhar is a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow and a Chevening Fellow.