Adeel is a digital journalist from Karachi, Pakistan, with a passion for storytelling that first began when he helped produce the school newsletter while on exchange in the US. A year into his university studies, he was offered an internship opportunity at Dawn, Pakistan’s oldest English-language newspaper, and hired full-time within a few days.
Four the past four years, he has been working as a sub-editor and multimedia journalist on the news desk of Dawn.com, the newspaper’s digital arm.
Through his work, Adeel hopes to share stories of human interest and give a voice to society’s unheard communities, while pursuing objective, factual and courageous journalism.
Adeel was selected as a DICE Young Storymaker in 2019/20.