Guided by Knight Fellow Adnan Adil Zaidi, reporters at Pakistan’s third-largest broadcaster produced accounts of a polluted canal and of the illegal sale of human organs that spurred the nation’s president and its highest-ranking judge to demand action.

In one piece, ARY News reporter Rasheed Channa showed how drainage from leather tanneries and plastics factories into the Phuleli Canal – the main source of drinking water and irrigation for one million Pakistanis – was making people sick.