Founder & Editorial Leadership
Newsbeat was founded by Arslan Arshed, a journalist and newsroom professional based in the Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan region with editorial and broadcast newsroom experience across SAMAA TV, Dunya News, and HUM News.
Drawing on years inside Pakistan’s major national television newsrooms, Newsbeat was built to solve a structural flaw in modern digital publishing: the rush to publish unverified social media claims without checking primary records. Every report published on Newsbeat is anchored to inspectable primary documents—such as State Bank of Pakistan circulars, federal ministries, regulatory filings, open-source repositories, or corroborated multi-wire dispatches—and displays those sources openly at the bottom of every article.
Editorial Standards & Multi-Source Verification
Newsbeat covers breaking developments and in-depth analysis across six core desks: Pakistan, Business, Technology, World, Sports, and Opinion.
Before a story enters the live edition, our desk cross-checks named officials, figures, and timestamps across independent primary and wire sources, assigns a verification rating, and publishes an accompanying Urdu (اردو) summary alongside the English report. Unverified single-source rumors are never published.
Bureau & Official Accounts
Editorial Bureau: Islamabad–Rawalpindi, Pakistan (Edition Timezone: Asia/Karachi PKT).
Domain & Official Social Channels: Newsbeat operates exclusively at newsbeat.pk. Official social accounts owned by Newsbeat are linked only as verified handles are activated by the publisher.