Ms Asma Shirazi is a Pakistani journalist, senior anchorperson and political commentator who hosts a primetime current affairs programme on Hum News. She began her career at Pakistan Television in 2000 and joined Geo News in 2002, and has since worked with several leading Pakistani news channels, including ARY News, Samaa TV and Dawn News. Pakistan’s first woman war correspondent, she reported from the 2006 Lebanon war and from the Pakistan–Afghanistan border in 2009. She has also covered major events including the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, Taliban violence and the 2007 state of emergency declared by General Pervez Musharraf. In 2014, she received the Peter Mackler Award for Courageous and Ethical Journalism. She holds a postgraduate degree in Political Science from the University of the Punjab.