Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace

Drawing on the frameworks of peace journalism, this book offers new insights into the Pakistani media coverage of Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan. Based on a three-year-study, the author examines the political, social and economic forces that influence and govern the reporting practices of journalists covering the protracted refugee conflict between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Through a critical discourse analysis of the structures of journalistic iterability of Afg...