journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
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Ansar Abbasi
Ansar Abbasi ( ur, ) (born June 12, 1965), is a Pakistani right-wing commentator and columnist associated with ''The News International''.
As one of Pakistan's most prominent journalists, Abbasi generally holds socially conservative and natio ...
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Ayaz Amir
Ayaz Amir () is a Pakistani Journalist, columnist, former military officer,diplomat and politician. Previously, he had been a member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab in 1990s and a member of the National Assembly between 2008 and 2013.
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Asma Chaudhry
Asma Chaudhry (born 7 June 1978) is a Pakistani TV journalist and a TV news anchor.Asm ...
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Ardeshir Cowasjee
Ardeshir Cowasjee (13 April 1926 – 24 November 2012) ( ur, ) was a Pakistani newspaper columnist, social activist, and philanthropist. Belonging from Karachi, his columns regularly appeared in the country's oldest English newspaper, ''D ...
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Altaf Husain
Altaf Husain ( bn, আলতাফ হোসেইন, ur, ; 26 January 1900 – 25 May 1968) was an educationist, journalist, and Pakistan Movement activist. He is noted as one of the pioneers of print journalism in Pakistan and was the fou ...
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Arshad Sharif
Arshad Sharif ( ur, ; 22 February 1973 – 23 October 2022) was a Pakistani journalist, writer, and television news anchor. He specialised in investigative journalism and covered many political events in the country for national and internati ...
Abid Qaiyum Suleri
Abid Qaiyum Suleri (born 9 September 1969) is a Pakistani social policy analyst and development practitioner with a PhD in Food Security from University of Greenwich, UK. He has been the Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy ...
Agha Shorish Kashmiri
Agha Shorish Kashmiri (1917–1975; ) was a Pakistani scholar, writer, debater, and a leader of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-e-Islam party. He was a figure of the freedom movement in the British Raj, as well as the chief editor of the weekly ''Chattan'' m ...
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Anthony Mascarenhas
Neville Anthony Mascarenhas (10 July 1928 – 3 December 1986) was a Pakistani journalist and author. His works include exposés on the brutality of Pakistan's military during the 1971 independence movement of Bangladesh, ''The Rape of Bangla D ...
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Asad Ali Toor
Asad Ali Toor or Asad Toor is a Pakistani youtuber journalist. He currently reports from the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He has also worked as a producer for the Aaj News. He used to be a critic of the ''Establishment''.
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Ayaz Latif Palijo
Ayaz Latif Palijo ( Sindhi, ur, اياز لطیف پلیجو) (born 15 November 1968, Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan) is a politician, lawyer, activist, writer and teacher. Palijo is the current president of Qomi Awami Tahreek (Peoples National Move ...
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Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi
Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi ( ur, ) born Ahmad Shah Awan ( ur, ) (20 November 1916 - 10 July 2006) was an Urdu language Pakistani poet, journalist, literary critic, dramatist and short story author. He wrote 50 books on topics such as poetry, fictio ...
Ahmed Rashid
Ahmed Rashid (Urdu:; born 1948 in Pakistan) is a journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
Life and career
Ahmed Rashid was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. He attended Ma ...
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Ayesha Siddiqa
Ayesha Siddiqa
( ur, ), (born April 7, 1966), is a Pakistani political scientist, a political commentator and an author who serves as a research associate at the SOAS South Asia Institute. She previously served as the inaugural Pakistan Fellow ...
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Akber Ali Wahidi
Syed Akber Ali Wahidi (7 August 1957 25 April 2011) was a Pakistani sports statistician, writer, journalist, historian and media manager of the Pakistan Football Federation. Often referred to in Pakistan as "Walking Encyclopedia of Football", ...
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Abdullah Malik
Abdullah Malik (10 October 1920 10 April 2003) was a Pakistani journalist, writer and political historian. While being an active member of communist party, he contributed to Pakistan movement as a journalist. He worked at various newspapers as ...
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Siddiq Baloch
Siddiq Baloch (alternatively Siddiq Balouch or Siddique Baloch) (10 February 1940 5 February 2018) was a Pakistani journalist, and senior political economist.
He was Editor-in-chief of the English daily ''Balochistan Express'' (Quetta), an Ur ...
Mujahid Barelvi
Mujahid Barelvi ( ur, ), is a Pakistani journalist. As of 2015, he appeared on a daily show, ''Doosra Pehlu'', for CNBC Pakistan. He has traveled extensively worldwide.Rabiah Jamil Beg
Rabiah Jamil Beg is a correspondent and producer for the Pakistani television network Geo. She has been the pioneer member of the Voice of America's Urdu Magazine show "Khabron Sey Agey" aired from Washington DC to report on Pakistani diaspora ...
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Sana Bucha
Sana Bucha is a Pakistani news anchor, who appears in prime time news talk shows. She is known for hosting a show named ''Lekin''.
Early life and education
Sana Bucha received her basic education at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Karachi Schoo ...
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Meher Bukhari
Meher Abbasi ( ur, ), née Bokhari is a Pakistani television anchorperson and host. After a high-profile stint at Dunya News and Dawn News, Bokhari is currently associated with Hum News since February 2021.
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Bokhari st ...
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Chiragh Hasan Hasrat
Chiragh Hasan Hasrat ( ur, Born 1904, Poonch, Kashmir ) was a Poet and Journalist. He began composing poetry when he was still a student at school. He was born in Kashmir but after matriculation he migrated to Pakistan. Early in his career ...
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Eqbal Ahmad
Eqbal Ahmad (1933 – 11 May 1999) was a Pakistani political scientist, writer and academic known for his anti-war activism, his support for resistance movements globally and academic contributions to the study of Near East. Born in Bihar, ...
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Musharraf Ali Farooqi (born 26 July 1968) is a Pakistani-Canadian author, translator, and storyteller. Farooqi was among the five writers shortlisted for Asia's most prestigious literary prize in 2012. In addition to his fiction and translatio ...
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Ian Fyfe
Ian Fyfe was a cricketer, coach and a sports journalist from Karachi, Pakistan. He was educated at St Patrick's High School, Karachi.
A bowler at St. Patrick's, under the watchful eye of Jacob Harris and as a leading wicket taker for the Kara ...
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Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr
Ghulam Rasool Mehr (13 April 1895 – 16 November 1971) (غلام رسول مہر) was a Pakistani Muslim scholar and political activist born in Phoolpur, a village in the district of Jalandhar, British India.
Early life
Mehr went to primary sc ...
Gharida Farooqi
Gharidah Farooqi ( ur, ) is a Pakistani television host and anchorperson who belongs to Sabzazar Lahore, Pakistan.
Gharidah has worked with PTV Home, ATV (Pakistan), Dunya TV, Geo News, Samaa TV (in 2012) and is currently (in 2017) a Senio ...
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Hasan Abidi
Hasan Abidi (Urdu: حسن عابدی) (7 July 1929 – 6 September 2005) was a Pakistani journalist, writer, political activist and an Urdu language poet.
Early life and career
He was born on 7 July 1929 in Zafarabad, Jaunpur district, Utt ...
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Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah
Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah ( bn, জেবুন্নেসা হামিদুল্লাহ, ur, ; 25 December 1918 – 10 September 2000) was a Pakistani writer and journalist. She was a pioneer of Pakistani literature and journalism in ...
Irshad Ahmed Haqqani
Irshad Ahmed Haqqani (6 September 1928 – 24 January 2010) was a senior editor, veteran journalist and reputed column writer for the Jang Group of Newspapers. He also served as federal information minister in Malik Meraj Khalid’s careta ...
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Khalid Hasan
Khalid Hasan (15 April 1934 – 5 February 2009) was a Pakistani journalist and writer. Author and editor of several books, in addition to being a regular columnist for a number of English-language Pakistani newspapers, he is best known for his ...
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Mehdi Hasan
Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American political journalist, broadcaster and author of Indian descent.
Hasan has been the host of ''The Mehdi Hasan Show'' on Peacock since October 2020 and on MSNBC since February 2021.
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Zahida Hina
Zahida Hina (Urdu: زاہدہ حنا) is a noted Urdu columnist, essayist, short story writer, novelist and dramatist from Pakistan.
Life
Zahida was born in India, after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, her father, Muhammad Abul Khair, ...
Mishal Husain
Mishal Husain (born 11 February 1973) is a British newsreader and journalist for BBC Television and BBC Radio. She is the main Sunday presenter of the ''BBC News at Ten'' and ''BBC Weekend News'' and one of the main presenters of BBC Radio 4's ' ...
Hamid Mir
Hamid Mir ( ur, حامد میر; born 23 July 1966) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and writer. Born in Lahore to a journalistic family, Mir initially worked as a journalist with Pakistani newspapers. He has hosted the political talk show ' ...
Mian Iftikharuddin
Mian Iftikharuddin (Punjabi, ur, میاں افتخارالدیں; 8 April 1907 – 6 June 1962) was a Pakistani politician, activist of the Indian National Congress, who later joined the All-India Muslim League and worked for the cause of Pakis ...
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Saba Imtiaz
Saba Imtiaz is a Pakistani author, journalist, music critic, and screenwriter from Karachi. She previously worked for ''The News International'' and ''The Express Tribune'', and is currently writing for ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'', ...
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Jawed Iqbal
Jawed Iqbal (born Sialkot, Punjab) is a newspaper, print media cartoonist of Pakistan.Javed Jabbar
Javed Jabbar (Urdu: جاوید جبار ) is a Pakistani writer and politician.Orya Maqbool Jan
Orya Maqbool Jan () is a Pakistani columnist, and former civil servant. He appears currently as an analyst on Neo News television show ''Harf e Raaz''.
Banned from Norway
In 2018 he was banned from visiting Norway for hate speech.
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Nusrat Javed
Nusrat Javed ( ur, ), is a Pakistani columnist, journalist and a former news anchor.
Early life and career
Nusrat Javed was born on 14 March 1954. He is among the senior most journalists in Pakistan having started his career in 1975. Beginni ...
Zafar Ali Khan
Zafar Ali Khan (1874– 27 November 1956) ( pnb, – ), also known as Maulana Zafar Ali Khan, was a Pakistani writer, poet, translator and a journalist who played an important role in the Pakistan Movement against the British Raj. He is genera ...
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Omar Kureishi
Omar Kureishi (1928 – 14 March 2005) was a Pakistani writer. He had also worked in the advertising, aviation and journalism industry, writing for '' Dawn'', ''The Pakistan Times'', ''Morning News'' and ''The Guardian'', London. He is best known ...
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Kiran Nazish
Kiran Nazish is a Pakistani journalist. She has worked as a foreign correspondent around the world, including the Middle East and South Asia. Nazish founded and is the director of The Coalition For Women In Journalism, a worldwide support organiz ...
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Minhaj Barna
Minhaj Barna (born Minhaj Muhamad Khan Afridi; ur, ; 1923 – 15 January 2011) was a Pakistani veteran journalist and a Trade union, trade union leader. Barna was Minhaj Muhammad Khan's poetic name, also called ''takhallus'' in Urdu langua ...
Moeed Pirzada
Moeed Hasan Pirzada ( ur, معید پیرزادہ) is a Pakistani-British political commentator, geostrategic analyst and television news journalist. He hosts a program on 92 News called 'Hard Talk'. He has interviewed many politicians from ma ...
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Makhdoom Shahabuddin
Makhdoom Shahabuddin (Urdu, Saraiki: ; born 7 April 1947) is a Pakistani politician and was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (February 2008 to May 2013) who has held federal ministerial portfolios for finance, health and textiles. ...
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Javed Malik
Javed Malik is a diplomat, noted media personality and the President of the Diplomat Business Club based in London and Dubai. Malik served as Pakistan's Ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain between 2015 and 2018, and the Prime Minister's Spe ...
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Shahid Masood
Shahid Masood ( ur, ) is a Pakistani columnist and political analyst who hosts the talk show ''Live with Dr. Shahid Masood'' on GNN. He is known for his series ''End of Time'' on ARY''.''
Previously, he served as Group executive director of ...
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Shireen Mazari
Shireen Mehrunnisa Mazari ( ur, ) is a Pakistani politician who served the Federal Minister for Human Rights, from 20 August 2018 to 10 April 2022. She is the chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Appointment of Chief Election Commi ...
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Mushtaq Minhas
Mushtaq Ahmed Minhas ( ur, مُشتاق احمد مِنہاس)(Born 12 August 1970) is a Pakistani politician who is former minister of Information, Tourism and Culture in the AJK assembly. He is a member of the 8th Legislative Assembly of AJK ...
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Hamid Mir
Hamid Mir ( ur, حامد میر; born 23 July 1966) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and writer. Born in Lahore to a journalistic family, Mir initially worked as a journalist with Pakistani newspapers. He has hosted the political talk show ' ...
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Janbaz Mirza
Janbaz Mirza (born Mirza Ghulam Nabi Janbaz) was a writer, poet, and journalist from Pakistan. He played a role in the Pakistan Movement and was the leader and official historian of the Majlis-e-Ahrar-ul-Islam party. He joined the Ahrar Party in 1 ...
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Tahir Mirza
Tahir Mirza (طاهر میرزا) (November 1936 – 29 May 2007) was a senior Pakistani journalist and former editor of ''Dawn (newspaper), Dawn'', Pakistan's oldest and most widely circulated English-language newspaper. He became resident editor ...
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Jugnu Mohsin
Syeda Maimanat Mohsin (born 1959), commonly known as Jugnu Mohsin, is a Pakistani politician and journalist. She was an independent member of the Provincial Assembly of Punjab until 31 March 2022 and then joined PML(N) on 1 April 2022.
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Saima Mohsin Saima Mohsin is a British Pakistani journalist and presenter born and raised in South London. Most recently she has been an international correspondent for CNN.
Career
In 2000 Mohsin gained her first job in television joining ITV Meridian as a ...
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Malik Siraj Akbar
Malik Siraj Akbar ( ur, ) is an ethnic Baloch journalist based in the United States. He is the editor-in-chief of the ''Baluch Hal'', the first online English language newspaper of Pakistan's Balochistan Province, ''Enkaar'', a liberal Urdu la ...
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Rana Mubashir
Rana Mubashir is a Pakistani television news journalist, talk show host and analyst who is known for his Current affairs (news format), current affairs show 'Aaj Rana Mubashir Kay Sath'.
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Shahid Nadeem
Shahid Mahmood Nadeem ( ur, ; born 1947) is a Pakistani journalist, playwright, screenwriter, theater and television director, and a human rights activist.
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Naveen Naqvi
Dawn News is one of Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in Karachi, the station is a subsidiary of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited (PHPL), Pakistan's largest English-language media group.
The test transmission of the station occu ...
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Zarqa Nawaz
Zarqa Nawaz (born 1967 in Liverpool, England) is a Canadian creator and producer for film and television, a published author, public speaker, journalist, and former broadcaster.
Biography
Zarqa Nawaz was raised in the Toronto area and attended ...
Hameed Nizami
Hameed Nizami or Hamid Nizami (Punjabi, ur, ; b. 3 October 1915 – 22 February 1962), was an eminent journalist, literary figure, Pakistan Movement activist, and the founder as well as the editor-in-chief of the Urdu-language newspaper, t ...
Haider Qureshi
Haider Qureshi ( ur, ),Qureshi Ghulam Haider Arshad ( ur, ) born on 1 September 1953 in Rabwah, Punjab, He is a Pakistani Urdu poet, short story writer, essayist, critic, editor and journalist. He writes in Urdu.
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Rais Amrohvi
Rais Amrohvi ( ur, ), whose real name was Syed Muhammad Mehdi (1914-1988) was a Pakistani scholar, Urdu poet, paranormal investigator, and psychoanalyst and elder brother of Jaun Elia. He was known for his style of qatanigari (quatrain writing ...
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Mumtaz Hamid Rao
Mumtaz Hamid Rao (Urdu: مُمتاز حمِید راؤ) (16 June 1941 in Sialkot, Pakistan – 8 November 2011 in Rawalpindi) was a senior Pakistani electronic media journalist and analyst.
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Mumtaz Hamid Rao was picked in 1965 as the fi ...
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Shehrbano Rehman
Sherry Rehman ( ur, ; born 21 December 1960) is a Pakistani politician, journalist and former diplomat who has been the member of the Senate of Pakistan since 2015. She was the first female Leader of the Opposition (Pakistan), Leader of the Op ...
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Somy Ali
Somy Ali ( ur, سومی علی, ar, سومي علي; born 25 March 1976)Singh, Prashant (30 April 2012Salman helps Somy Ali's charity foundation ''Hindustan Times'' is a Pakistani-American actress, writer, filmmaker, model and activist who has ...
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Arman Sabir
Arman Sabir ( ur, ) is an investigative Pakistani journalist. He was the Secretary of the Karachi Press Club in 2019 and 2020. He is now working for the Weekly Bol News English as Senior Correspondent and based in Karachi. Before joining the ...
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Saleem Safi
Saleem Safi (Urdu, ps, ; born 7 March 1968) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist talk show host. He specializes in foreign policy, terrorism, Kashmir conflict, Afghanistan conflict and the politics of Pakistan. He is associated with Jang Me ...
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Ghazi Salahuddin
Ghazi Salahuddin (born 1939) (Urdu: غازى صلاح الدين), is a Pakistani journalist, writer, literary figure, and the scholar of political science.
He is brother of renowned educationist and Pakistan’s first woman to do PhD in nuclear ...
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Ahmad Salim
Ahmad Salim or Muhammad Salim Khawaja (born 26 January 1945 in Miana Gondal, Punjab, Pakistan, Punjab, Pakistan) is a writer, archivist and co-founder of the South Asian Resource and Research Centre, a private archive established in 2001. He cur ...
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Shaheen Sehbai
Shaheen Sehbai is a Pakistani-American journalist and former Group Editor of daily English newspaper ''The News International''.
Career
Shaheen Sehbai resigned from ''The News International'' in March 2002 after receiving a memorandum from hi ...
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Shahzeb Khanzada
Shahzeb Khanzada ( ur, شاہ زیب خانزادہ; Born 20 September 1986) is a Pakistani journalist, columnist and news anchor, currently hosting a Telivison program '' Aaj Shahzeb Khanzada Kay Sath'' on Geo News.
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Shahzad Iqbal Shahzad ( fa, شهزاد) or Shehzad is a given name and surname. The name is made from شاه (''Shah'', "king"), and زاد (''Zad'', "son of"), so the name means "son of the king".
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Najam Sethi
Najam Aziz Sethi (Urdu, pa, ; born 20 May 1948) is a Pakistani journalist, businessman and cricket administrator, currently serving as the chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). He also is the founder of ''The Friday Times'' and ''Vangua ...
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Mahmood Shaam
Mahmood Shaam ( ur, ) born Tariq Mahmood ( ur, ) on 5 February 1940, is a Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet, writer and news analyst.
After serving Pakistan's largest newspaper Jang Group for more than 16 years continuously as Group ...
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Bina Shah
Bina Shah (born in 1972) is a Pakistani writer, columnist and blogger living in Karachi.
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The eldest of three children, Shah was born in Karachi to a Sindhi family. She obtained a B.A. in Psychology from Wellesley College and a MEd ...
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Riaz Shahid
Riaz Shahid (1927 – 1 October 1972) was a Pakistani filmmaker, film writer, and a journalist.
Early life and career
Riaz Shahid was born in 1927 in Quetta, British India. He belonged to a Kashmiris in Punjab, Punjabi Kashmiri family. He ...
Muneeza Shamsie
Muneeza Shamsie (born 1944) is a Pakistani writer, critic, literary journalist, bibliographer and editor. She is the author of a literary history ''Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani English Literature'' (Oxford University Press) ...
Waseem Badami
Waseem Badami ( ur, ) is a Pakistani television host and news anchor who currently hosts a political talk show ''11th Hour'' on ARY News.
Early life and education
Waseem was born in Karachi, Pakistan on 7 February 1985. He graduated with MBA ...
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Rahimullah Yusufzai
Rahimullah Yusufzai (رحیم اللہ یوسُفزئی) (10 September 1954 – 9 September 2021) was a Pakistani journalist, political and security analyst, best known for having interviewed Osama bin Laden, and Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Om ...
Mahbub Jamal Zahedi
Mahbub Jamal Zahedi also known as M J Zahedi (21 June 1929 – 7 December 2008) was a veteran journalist and philatelist from Pakistan. During a career of nearly fifty years he served as editor of the ''Khaleej Times'', Dubai, UAE as well the ne ...
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Fasi Zaka
Fasi Zaka ( ps, فاسی زاکا; born 9 October 1976) is a Pakistani political commentator, columnist, radio talk show host, and television anchor.
Zaka attended Somerville College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He rose to prominence for his sa ...
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Zia Ur Rehman
Zia Ur Rehman ( Urdu, Pashto,: ضیاءالرحمن, born 1981) is a Pakistani journalist, researcher and author, specialising on security issues, human rights, minorities, and politics.
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Rehman was born and raised in Karachi, th ...
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Nasim Zehra
Nasim Zehra (Urdu:نسیم زہرہ) is a Pakistani journalist and writer who hosts a primetime current affairs talkshow on ''Channel 24''.
Education and career
Zehra studied business at the Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan and later studie ...
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Nasira Zuberi
Nasira Zuberi is a Pakistani poet and a journalist.
Early life and career
Nasira Zuberi comes from a literary family background, she got her early education from her home town, Lahore and received a master's degree in Economics from the Univers ...
List of Pakistanis
Pakistan is the fifth most populous nation in the world. Below is a list of some notable people who relate to the country. See Pakistani people for a list of pages about notable Pakistanis by category.
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Journalist
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...