{"id":100026,"date":"2026-02-07T00:50:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=100026"},"modified":"2026-02-07T00:50:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T19:50:56","slug":"abn-news-cancels-anniversary-celebrations-to-focus-on-national-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/abn-news-cancels-anniversary-celebrations-to-focus-on-national-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"ABN News cancels anniversary celebrations to focus on national tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The recent tragic<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/maryam-nawaz-cancels-basant-activities-after-islamabad-blast\/\"> blast<\/a> in the federal capital, while mourning the entire nation, also raised many questions about the role of the media.<\/p>\n<p>In this hour of sorrow, <em><strong>ABN News<\/strong><\/em> played the role of a responsible national institution while fulfilling its journalistic duty.<\/p>\n<p>ABN News was the only institution that focused its entire attention on the complete and timely coverage of the tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>ABN News was the first channel to broadcast this sad news and thereafter continued to provide complete, authentic, and timely coverage of the tragedy. It should be noted here that the priority of the channel was not ratings but to share in the grief of the nation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ABN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ABN<\/a> break terrorist attack news before all TV channels at 1:58 pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IslamabadBlast?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IslamabadBlast<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Terrorism?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Terrorism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KF6LNgdpO3\">https:\/\/t.co\/KF6LNgdpO3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6h7RyWaRsZ\">pic.twitter.com\/6h7RyWaRsZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MOHSIN NAWAZ (@ask_not_why) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ask_not_why\/status\/2019743115519639734?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It is also worth mentioning that today was the third anniversary of the launch of ABN News. In view of this national tragedy, the channel canceled all the events and celebrations, considering the coverage of the national tragedy as the most important, and the position of the administration was practically clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The recent tragic blast in the federal capital, while mourning the entire nation, also raised many questions about the role of the media. In this hour of sorrow, ABN News played the role of a responsible national institution while fulfilling its journalistic duty. ABN News was the only institution that focused its entire attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":100027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[32271],"class_list":["post-100026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-islamabad-blast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100028,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100026\/revisions\/100028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}