Sacked over Charlie Hebdo caricatures, Urdu journalist returns with new website

September 12, 2016 18:29

She was sacked and forced to go underground after 'Awadhnama', the newspaper she was the editor of, reproduced the Charlie Hebdo cover that caricatured the prophet in January 2015, but journalist Shirin Dalvi is finding her voice and confirmed that the Urdu News Express, helmed by her will go online in a month.

Speaking of her time when she didnt have a job, she said she wrote but very few were willing to publish her. She borrowed from friends, sold her jewelry to keep going.

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