Nasir Baig Chughtai
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Nasir Baig Chughtai is Senior Editor in The News English-language . He served Geo TV
Geo TV
Geo TV or Geo Television is a Pakistani television network, founded by Mr. Mir Shakil ur Rehman in May 2002 and owned by Independent Media Corporation. The channel began test transmission on 14 August 2002, with regular transmission beginning 1 October 2002...

as Director of News.

Career

Nasir Baig Chughtai joined The Nation group of publications in 1980s and worked there as a joint news editor, news editor, chief

news editor and deputy editor of the daily Jang.

He was the founder Editor News of English News that publishes from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
he also served in ARY One World tv , a news channel as channel head .

Geo Tv

Nasir Baig Chughtai Work As Director News In Geo TV belongs to Independent Media Corporation, owner of the Jang Group of Newspapers. The channel started its test transmission on August 14, 2002, whereas regular transmission began from October 1, 2002.

In Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, the word geo translates to live on in English. Geo's name may come from the fact that it utilizes a geosynchronous orbit satellite for its transmissions.

Executive Director News (Geo News) Sir Waris ali Ayyaz

He Join GEO Network As “Executive Director News ”

Writer and Translator

Nasir Baig Chughtai has translated works of English and French classical writers. These were published in the largest circulated weekly Akhbar-e-Jahan. His thousands of articles, columns and original stories have been published in so many newspapers, including Musawaat, Amn and Jang.

Novel

Nasir Baig Chughtai is also a Novelist. His novel Sulagtay Chinaar was about freedom struggle in Jammu and Kashmir. This is first of its kind novel on the issue and characters have been taken from real life.

Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs was an Urdu based weekly discussion programme aiming to elaborate on current international issues, particularly those affecting Pakistan directly or indirectly. The programme included packages, discussions with eminent personalities, and interviews with related individuals

Nasir Baig Chughtai has done some 200 programs of Foreign Affairs. He has discussed all important issues including Palestine, Kashmir, Iraq, Afghanistan, WTO, UN restructure, problems of South Asia and Muslim Umma.
He hosted the first ever programme in Pakistan to debate why Pakistan should not accept Israel now.

Nasir Baig Chughtai is among few foreigner journalists, who have visited Srinagar and Jammu. He recorded his programmes in Srinagar University and at the Lal Chowk of Srinagar. Lal Chowk is considered as a center point of clashes between Indian army and Kashmiri freedom fighters.

Comments On International Issues

On Election in India:

Nasir Baig Chughtai told that
if Sonia Gandhi becomes the prime minister, India would move four steps forward for nurturing and strengthening the friendship with Pakistan.

He said that the outcome of Indian elections unfolding change in leadership would not initiate any alteration in Indian policy relating to Pakistan instead the talks for the promotion of friendship would further move forward and added,
“If Congress forms the government, we will take this friendship further four
steps forward.”

Sir Waris Ali Ayyaz state that NDA and BJP’s meeting was held in which they decides to focused more on Tamil Nadu seats. Tamil Nadu has 39 seats and BJP wants to capture maximum number of seats.


On Geo Ban:

Nasir Baig Chughtai, Geo’s director of news, as saying.
But the “attacks have also brought channels as well as journalists closer to each other and a strong unity has emerged,”
he said.
“Intense attacks from the government as well as from various pressure groups,
political parties and vested interests have increased”
since the CJP’s suspension, said Shamimur Rehman of the Karachi Union of Journalists.
He said journalists had also been beaten up at rallies in Lahore and Islamabad as the threat
to Musharraf’s rule has grown.

Hameed Haroon, publisher of the Dawn newspaper, wrote an open letter asking the government of Pakistan to desist from “abducting and arresting journalists” and “physically attacking newspaper offices”. Musharraf had previously been credited with relaxing press restrictions, accepting media criticism, and awarding licences to a booming number of private satellite channels.

“We were dead either way,” said Nasir Baig Chughtai, a senior and popular figure
among the journalists in Pakistan also known as NBC

Visits

Nasir Baig Chughtai has visited many countries of South Asia, Middle East, Far East and also USA. He has covered Islamic summits in Putrajaya, Malaysia and Makkah, Saudi Arabia, SAARC summit in Islamabad, and also UN General Assembly session during his remarkable professional career.

External links

  • http://www.pid.gov.pk/listoftvch.htm


ARY Digital

AryOne World

http://www.jang.com.pk/important_events/indian_elections/news/index_english.htm

http://www.answers.com/topic/baig

http://desicritics.org/2007/11/16/190929.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtARLhJM6R8&feature=related

http://www.cpj.org/news/2007/asia/pak04jun07na.html

http://www.thearynews.com/english/aboutus.asp
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