Khabar Agency

Additionally, Khabar runs the satellite channel Jibek Joly TV, which is potentially available across Europe and Asia.

[7] In April 2006, Kazakhstan's Information and Culture Minister Ermukhamet Ertysbayev announced the intention to gain "one hundred-percent state control over the Khabar joint-stock company."

This came on the heels of a general government call for greater control of the media, brought about from the turmoil following the murder of political opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev.

Some observers see the near-simultaneous loss of both the political party and the Khabar network as efforts by President Nazarbayev to reel in his daughter.

[10] On March 29, 2022, Berik Uali, the former press secretary of the President of Kazakhstan, was appointed as the new Chairman of the Board of "Khabar" News Agency JSC.