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FAREWELL DINNER FOR NEW BBC WORLD NEWS PRESENTER YALDA HAKIM OF SBS DATELINE
Kashif Amjad and Aisha Amjad attended an intimate farewell dinner for former SBS journalist and Dateline show anchor Yalda Hakim. Yalda is taking up a senior journalist position with the esteemed BBC World group in London with a viewing audience of over 90 million viewers worldwide.
Aisha Amjad and Yalda Hakim
Yalda of Afghan origins has been involved with the Pakistani community with several community charity functions attendances and visits accompanying President Karzai to Islamabad including meetings with President Zardari. Through this she has built strong links and friendship with Kashif Amjad and Aisha Amjad and met with Consul General Azam Muhammad, Consul Shifaat Kaleem and High Commissioner H.E.Abdul Malik Abdullah.
Yalda Hakim and Kashif Amjad
She recently resigned from SBS to take up a new role with BBC World in the news and current affairs department. She is role model to all young Muslim women and is self made person arriving in the country as a refugee and starting in SBS as a very junior journalist.
Presenter Yalda Hakim
to join BBC World News
Date: 04.12.2012Last updated: 04.12.2012 at 07.59
Category: BBC World News
The BBC has announced that one of
Australia’s brightest young journalists, Yalda Hakim, is joining BBC World News
as a presenter and correspondent for a new current affairs programme.
Yalda is currently the presenter of SBS Dateline in Australia. From a headline-making investigation in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province to her reporting from Libya during the Arab Spring, Yalda has already built up a wealth of journalistic experience around the world.
Yalda will launch a new international current affairs programme for BBC World News in 2013, as well as presenting news programmes. The BBC is investing heavily in new programmes and facilities for its international news channel, as it seeks to build on recent successes building audiences and reputation around the world.
Reporting for SBS’s Dateline show for the past four years, Yalda Hakim has delivered stories from the Middle East, the United States, Africa and Europe. In March 2012, Hakim was the first western journalist to visit one of the villages in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, where US soldier Staff Sgt Robert Bales is alleged to have shot and killed Afghan civilians. Hakim’s report ‘Anatomy of a Massacre’ traced the steps of the rogue soldier to help shed new light on the events of that night. It made headlines around the world, particularly in the United States, with extensive coverage across the major news networks.
Other career highlights include interviewing the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and travelling with him to Pakistan for talks with President Asif Ali Zardari and Iran’s leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about peace in the region. She was also on the ground in Libya as the people fought for freedom from Gaddafi’s rule, and reported on the resulting refugee crisis in Tunisia as thousands fled the conflict.
She has presented Dateline from a range of locations including from Ground Zero in New York as the world marked 10 years since the 9/11 terror attacks, from the streets of Juba, South Sudan, as thousands celebrated the new country’s independence, and from Afghanistan 10 years into the US-led invasion, where she interviewed a failed suicide bomber in one of the country’s most notorious prisons.
Hakim was born in Afghanistan and moved to Australia in the late 1980s after her father fled Kabul with his family when Russia invaded. She began her career as a cadet journalist at SBS’s World News Australia. She filmed her first story for Dateline in 2008 called ‘Yalda’s Kabul’, where she returned to Afghanistan. Hakim was also a finalist for the Australian Young Journalist of the Year Award and won the United Nations Media Peace Prize for Best Australian Television News coverage in 2009.
As well as English, Hakim speaks five
other languages including Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Pashto and Dari, and is currently
learning Mandarin.
Yalda says: “Obviously I'm sad to be leaving my SBS family and home in
Australia, but I’m delighted to be joining the dynamic team at BBC World News.
Its credibility and standard is truly the best in the world.”
Richard Porter, Controller of English, Global News says: “Yalda is an exceptionally talented young journalist, who has already achieved a great deal in her career and we’re very excited to welcome her to the team. With her international background and language skills she’ll provide a perfect fit for BBC World News as we continue to develop our services to global audiences during the course of 2013.”
KB
Yalda is an exceptionally talented young journalist, who has already achieved a
great deal in her career and we’re very excited to welcome her to the team."
Richard Porter, Controller of English, Global News
Mr.Kashif Amjad,Miss Yalda Hakim and Aisha Amjad (On the demand of Talal
Zafar, A Exclusive Photo for Sada-e-Watan Sydney)
