Nasir Baig Chughtai

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Nasir Baig Chughtai (ناصر بیگ چغتائی) is the Director News of Urdu-language Pakistani television network Geo TV.

Nasir Baig Chughtai is one of the pioneer members of Geo and has been played a foundation role in preserving the breaking news culture in Pakistan. As Director Geo News, he leads the entire news bulletin production team of Geo News, including assignment, reporting, as well as all bureaus.

1 Education
2 Career
3 Writer and Translator
4 Novel
5 Foreign Affairs
6 Visits

[edit] Education

Nasir Baig Chughtai was born in Karachi and did his Masters from University of Karachi. He joined journalism as an intern in 1972.

[edit] Career

Nasir Baig Chughtai joined Jang 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 Urdu News that publishes from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He joined Geo TV in 2002 and he is now an active pillar of this famous and popular news channel. Geo News is the pioneer of breaking news all over the world in Urdu language. Nasir Baig Chughtai adored as a teacher and friend among new comers in the field of journalism.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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. Programme comprised of packages, discussions with eminent personalities, 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.

[edit] 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.