A Dispatches documentary broadcast on Channel 4 and a series of reports by Sky News have been nominated for the International Emmy news and current affairs awards.

Sky News was nominated in the news category for its Pakistan – Terrors’ Front Line reports, from March last year, which detailed the increasing control the Taliban was taking in Pakistan.

Channel 4 Dispatches documentary Pakistan’s Taliban Generation, produced by October Films, was nominated for the current affairs award for its investigation on how the war on terror is creating a generation of child terrorists.