Shafi naqi jamie biography sample

  • An ambitious and articulate postgraduate with an excellent academic record in addition to wide experience in broadcasting, both in Radio and TV.
  • Through years of dictatorship and censorship in Pakistan, Sairbeen provided a lifeline to the audience.
  • I was born and raised in Srinagar and grew up by the banks of the Dal lake surrounded by cousins, laughter and poetry.

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    April issue 2014

    By Sama F|People|Q & A| Published 11 years ago

    Fluent in English, Urdu and Hindi, news anchor Aliya Nazki’s presentation style in the BBC Urdu programme, Sairbeen, won her the prestigious AGAHI Award 2013 for Emerging Current Affairs Anchor of the Year. After a short break off air, the programme — hosted by Nazki along with seasoned broadcaster, Shafi Naqi Jamie — is now re-launching in a new format, available online and to be broadcast on Aaj Tv. Newsline speaks to the Srinagar-born anchor about her life and work.

    Tell us about Sairbeen. How did you get involved with it? 

    Sairbeen is BBC Urdu’s flagship Tv show which draws on the BBC’s unparalleled international news-gathering presence. It brings regional reporting from BBC Urdu correspondents in Washington, Delhi and across Pakistan, and also analysis from BBC Urdu’s leading journalists. Our show offers a different and more global perspective to news and important contemporary issues. Arts, t

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    BBC Urdu’s flagship radio programme about current affairs Sairbeen will fall silent on Dec 31 this year and will not see the New Year after having been on air for 51 years.

    BBC Urdu Service head Mehvish Hussain has attributed the decision to falling short wave and medium wave audiences and the “migration” of younger media users and women to digital platforms including television. The BBC says its decision is based on audience research conducted last year.

    The nostalgia around Sairbeen is very strong among a generation of listeners who tuned in each evening at or around 8pm in Pakistan, half an hour later in occupied Kashmir and at 7pm in the United Arab Emirates over several decades.

    Through years of dictatorship and censorship in Pakistan, Sairbeen provided a lifeline to the audience, as it was perhaps their only means of understanding what was happening in their own backyard. Its current affairs content was carefully compiled to meet their needs.

    The audience res

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    This is the second part of the blog 'An election' in which inom shared my experience of joining lärjunge politics at college during the Ziaul-Haq dictatorship.

    In this blog, I relate to you my exit from lärjunge activism.

    My association with student politics lasted mot about 1990. I enrolled as a master’s lärling of Political Science at the Karachi University in early 1988.

    At the university, inom joined the left-wing National Students statsförbund (NSF), but I hardly ever went to any class because I had also taken up a side job as a copywriter at an advertising agency.

    Then, Zia died. On August 18, 1988, the plane he was travelling in (C-130), blew somewhere over Bhawalpur in the Punjab province.

    In the election that took place after his death, Benazir Bhutto led the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) to become the largest party in the National Assembly.

    I returned to the university in månad 1988 and this time I was persuaded bygd the Peoples Students statsförbund (PSF) chapter ther