Representation of Afghanistan Government and Taliban in Dawn and Ummat

This research study investigates how selected mainstream Pakistani print media, Dawn and Ummat, represented the image of Afghanistan Taliban in its news coverage. The aim is to understand whether two newspapers portrayed positively or negatively. considered leftist newspaper that holds liberal views about issues Pakistan. On other hand, Ummat a right-wing with conservative views. content both was studied from 1st January 2019 31st 2019. Content Analysis has been employed as method this answer all outstanding questions. findings support though most newspapers' discussion revolved around US-Taliban peace talks, emphasized Taliban's perspective more It also revealed relied on Afghan sources share government story readers. grounded Goffman's Framing Theory.