Javed Rana, is a celebrated freelance journalist with extensive experience of working with national and international news outlets. He is The Editor of The Counter Narrative, an online Investigative magazine based in Islamabad, Pakistan. He carries over two decades of experience in print, online and television journalism. He regularly appears on national and international news televisions as an analyst/correspondent on political, economic, geostrategics, human rights, legal, terrorism and climate change related issues.

He has worked with many leading Pakistani and international newspapers and news channels as a staff member such as with Daily The Nation, Aljazeera Tv and freelance correspondent, producer, analyst and documentary maker for Channel News Asia (CNA), RT, TRT World, A News, Times Now, India, Tv Asahi, Japan, Los Angles Times, Khaleej Times and briefly Arab News (as a columnist).

Being a prolific writer, columnist, investigative journalist, script writer, Javed has written thousands of news stories, produced and reported, live video events, news packages, numerous short and long documentaries, hosted talk shows and conducted interviews with high profile leaders. His documentary “ Return of the Taliban ” won New York Festival Tv & Film Awards 2022 Bronze in the International Category. It is one of the most prestigious and toughest competitions in the world.

Javed carries a unique distinction to have developed an apt understanding of television and online journalism with deep down skill orientation of technicalities involved in videography, editing and green-screen background.

The Counter Narrative, is an offshoot of The Digital Dispatch, a Pakistani media company of which he is the CEO. The Counter Narrative, reports and analyzes major political and geo-strategic and terrorism related happenings in South Asia and Middle East while The Digital Dispatch, provides filming, production facilities together with the state of the art live streaming broadband infrastructure with green-screen background to various international news outlets. He heads a syndicated network of journalists to gather information, footage, host talk shows, produce news packages, short and long documentaries on issues spreading across the region. Javed is an expert in multimedia web development such as customized use of themes with WordPress and Google Blogger-spot.