LAWMAKING CHALLENGES & ISLAMIC IDENTITY PROMOTION: DAWN AND JANG'S INSIGHT INTO KARACHI’S ETHNIC TURMOIL

Abstract

Karachi’s multi-ethnic contour remains a source of communal strain leading to disorder while polarizing body politic including the press and legislature. The research aims to see how English and Urdu editorials treated Karachi’s ethnic strain in the 2000s which also witnessed May 12, 2007, ethnic mayhem claiming dozens of innocent lives. The researchers selected two newspapers Dawn and Jang while adopting the purposive sampling method to decipher if peace journalism was practiced in sampled dailies' editorials amid promotion of Islamic identity and challenges to lawmaking. Having conducted content analysis of the editorials of Dawn and Jang, the research concludes that both dailies succeeded in practicing peace journalism; with Jang carrying more editorials indicating unity in diversity approach while shying away from Islamic identity, meaning Jang leads Dawn in contributing to peace journalism cause despite lawmaking challenges.