About NewsLead360

NewsLead360 is an independent news publication. Built under the supervision of a news team with decades of journalism experience, we focus on important, verified breaking news alongside insightful, in-depth analysis — covering stories from every walk of life.

The 360 in our name is a promise about method. Before we tell you what a story means, we look at it from every relevant angle: the people it affects, the evidence behind it and the context around it.

Imran Ahmed is the founder of NewsLead360. He brings more than 30 years leading newsrooms across Pakistan's television and print industry, most recently as Director of News & Current Affairs at BOL Network.

Over his career he has led editorial teams as Bureau Chief, Station Head and Director at nine major outlets — including a role on the founding editorial team of 92 News, Pakistan's first HD news channel, where he was appointed the channel's first Bureau Chief for Karachi. His reporting has focused on politics, defense and security, and crime, a specialism that began as a desk editor at Daily Jang and continued through bureau leadership at Express News, Dunya Media Group, Samaa News, JAAG TV and GNN TV.

He holds an M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Karachi and has completed national-security training through Pakistan's National Defense University and a fellowship at the East-West Center in Honolulu.

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• We verify before we publish. Contested claims need more than one independent source; documents are checked for authenticity before we rely on them.
• We attribute. You should always know where a fact comes from.
• We give people the right to reply. Anyone we accuse of wrongdoing is asked to respond before publication, and we say when they did not.
• News and opinion are separate. Opinion and analysis are always labelled.
• No clickbait. Headlines say what the story says.

When we get something wrong, we correct it.

• Fixed in the story. A mistake of fact is corrected in the story itself.
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We name our sources wherever we can. When we grant anonymity, it is because a source faces a real risk — to their safety, their job or their family — and we explain why in the story. Claims from anonymous sources are corroborated before we publish them.

When a story rests on documents, we tell you what they show and what they do not, and we publish them when it is safe to do so. Each story lists the material it is based on.

NewsLead360 is owned by its founder, Imran Ahmed, and receives no outside funding.

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