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“What awoke my passion was my thirst for knowledge”

August 31, 2012

Already as a child Imran from Pakistan was enthusiastic about foreign radio broadcasts and so he went on to turn his passion into his profession.

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During my childhood I developed the hobby of listening to foreign media broadcasts on the radio. I was a regular listener of both Deutsche Welle's Urdu and English language broadcasts.

Back then I only had my father’s old radio that was unable to receive shortwave frequencies from inside our house. So I stood on the roof of our house for hours to listen to international radio broadcasts.

As I grew up I realized that what awoke my passion was my thirst for knowledge, an urge to connect with the world and to see beyond the end of my nose.

In 2009, I acquired my M.A. degree in Media Studies in Pakistan. While studying, I worked as a news reporter at my university’s radio station.

It was through DW broadcasts that I developed the greatest desire to obtain a higher education in Germany.

After coming to Germany I tried to avail every possible opportunity to enhance my skills as a journalist. I participated in conventions and conferences, produced a radio program and realized the importance of social media in the modern world. This established my interest in blogging and so I started maintaining a blog about the political situation in Pakistan.