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| Journalist/Host | | Born: 24 May 1948 | | Profession: Journalist/columnist | | Affiliation(s): Geo News | | Citizenship: Pakistani | | Views: 31,789 | Comments: 38 | Votes: 65 |
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Najam Sethi (Urdu: ??? ?????), an award winning Pakistani journalist and media personality, is the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a Lahore-based political weekly. He was previously the editor of Daily Times and Daily Aajkal newspapers. He is currently the Editor in Chief of Geo News where he hosts a popular political program: “aapas ki baat”. He is the only journalist in Asia to receive three international press freedom awards in a decade.
Education
Sethi graduated from Government College, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1967. He was awarded the Presidents Gold Medal topping Punjab University. He took a BA Hons degree in Economics from Cambridge University, UK, in 1970 and was awarded the Davies Prize by Clare College, where he later spent a year as a PhD research fellow.
Personal Life
Sethi was born in May, 1948. He is married to Jugnu Mohsin who is Managing Editor of The Friday Times and Good Times. Their son Ali Sethi is a novelist and daughter Mira Sethi works at the Wall Street Journal in New York.
Politcal Prisoner
Sethi was a political prisoner from 1975-1977 during the regime of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for protesting military action in Balochistan. In 1984, the regime of General Zia ul Haq put him in prison for one month for publishing “From Jinnah To Zia”, a book authored by the former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Justice Mohammad Munir. The book was a sort of mea culpa in which the author had admitted his grave error in legitimizing the first martial law in Pakistan in 1958, thereby paving the way for Gen Zia’s martial law in 1977.
Achievements
In 1999, he was again imprisoned by the government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on trumped up charges of treason. The reason was relentless exposure of corruption in the Sharif family by The Friday Times. The Supreme Court of Pakistan later rejected the charges and freed him after one month. While in detention, he was tortured and suffered a heart attack, which necessitated heart surgery in 2000. The Sharif government harassed him later by slapping dozens of income tax cases, accused him of being a “non-Muslim” and tried to deprive him of his voting rights. But all the cases were dismissed by the courts and the his rights were restored by the Chief Election Commissioner.
Vanguard Books
In 1978, he established Vanguard Books, an independent, liberal, publishing house, which has published over 400 titles since then in history, politics and economics.
Friday Times
In 1989, along with his wife, he launched The Friday Times (TFT), an independent national weekly, which espouses secular internationalism, human rights, regional peace and democracy. Newsweek Magazine described him in the 1990s as a “crusading editor” for exposing corruption in government. He has unfailingly written the editorials of the paper every week since 1989.
Daily Times
In 2002, he launched Daily Times. Its editorials constantly argued for peace with India, supported the war against Taliban-Al-Qaeda terror; and opposed religious fundamentalism and extremism.
AajKal
In August 2008, he launched AajKal, a national Urdu daily, published from Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. He resigned from both papers in October 2009 after disagreements with its management over various issues.
Beyond Borders
In 2007, he set up Beyond Borders, a public interest production company for South Asia television channels. The mission statement of this project is to promote South Asian cultures, build confidence and trust; and sustain democracy, civil society and human rights in the region. The company has produced 13 short films on the partition of the subcontinent in 1947 based on the short stories of the grand literary masters of India and Pakistan. It has also produced a 13 part serial titled ROOTS, which is a compilation of interviews of famous Indians and Pakistanis who crossed over to the “other” country at the time of partition and have inspiring stories to tell of the warmth, love, humanity and affection of the “other” community.
Dunya News
Mr. Sethi joined Dunya News in 2009 and hosted his program thrice a week.
Geo/Jang Group
He joined the Geo/Jang Group in Jan 2011 as group adviser political affairs. He would host three weekly shows on Geo TV and write regular news analyses and commentary for Jang Group of Newspapers, including The News.
Death Threats
In 2007-8, he received open death threats from the Taliban-Al Qaeda for supporting the war against terrorism. The Taliban’s mouthpiece in Waziristan did a cover story in which it identified Najam Sethi as an “enemy of Islam”. Radical Islamists demonstrated against his papers in Islamabad and openly called for his elimination.
Awards
He has been awarded the 2009 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Editors Forum/ World Association of Newspapers for courage in upholding secular values, human rights and press freedom. He has also received Courage in Journalism Award 1999 from Amnesty International, Press Freedom Award 1999 from Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) New York, and Hilal i Imtiaz, the highest civil award of the country, from the Government of Pakistan in 2010. |
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Najam Sethi Sahib Asalam o Alakum
Yeh jo election ka Tamasha banayea hua ha, Baray Ahtaraam se Muje b apna muakaf bayaan karna ha , is umeed k sath k meri baat aap insaaf ka thekaydaaron tak puhanchayen ga jo musalsal 3 dahayeon se hatt darmi ka muzahira kartay he chalay ja rahay hain, muje apni baat puhanchani ha us alaaa adliyea ka cheif justice ko jo buhat sa masail par so moto la leta ha aur jahan pakistan ka mustakbil ka sawaal ha wahan neend ki dhear sari golyean la k so gyea ha kisi ki b amaarat ki bunyaad achi na ho to woh amaarat kabi b kamyaab nahi hoti hamary mulak k alaa taleem yafta danishwaroon aur aap jaisay buhat sa parhay likhay hazraat ko is musamam qanoon ka pata ha ,
pakistan ka mustakibil ka jab sawaal ata ha to election ma ki hui daandliyon ko jaan booj kar passay pusht phank dyea jata ha meri zaati muakaf yeh ha k jab daandliyoun ka saboot mil chukay hain to koi zinda dil insaan yeh kaisay kahay k ikka dukka daandliyan hui hain k baki election shafaaf huay hain. yeh ghoor rahay k yeh pakistan k mustakibil ka sawaal ha koi aam baat nahi ha, aap daaniswaroon ko sar jhor kar zinda dili ka saboot daina chahye is bunyaad par k aik machli pooray talaab ko ganda karti ha isi tarah daandli kar k aik MNA poori Assembly ko ganda karay ga muje umeed ha k aap meri yeh baat cheif justice of pakistan tak puhanchyen ga aur muje yeh umeed ha k cheif justice of pakistan hakeeki insaaf ka tukaaza pora kartay huay Re-Election karwanay ka order dain ga agar aisa na hua to aap pakistan ka tamaam kabil insaano ki zameer ki awaaz ko dabanay par muje afsoos he rahay ga.......... Shukria
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Dear Sir,
I m Ghulam Mustafa and i am textile engineer and jobless from last 3 years. I want to join teaching. Plz allow engineers in teaching sector. |
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Dear sir,
I need your kind attention for one of my surrounding supreme issue...... i would like to discuss you in detail. so please send me your personal cell number so that i could discuss you in detail for its remedy.
Thanks
Dr. Muhammad Fasih Ud din
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Najam sethi is by default a jiala, for the jiala, by the jiala, die as jiala.
See a video prepared by BBC soon after dismissal of 1993-96 govt. by Farooq Leghari. He is testifying against corruption of zardari n bhutto in the documentry. Pls. goto:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xubf0i_princess-and-the-playboy-bbc-1996_news?start=900#.UV-vQKL-Eaj |
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I wish that you keep your words which you said while talking to Muneeb Farooq on 30 March 2013. |
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Najam Sethi is the nominee of Mr. Zardari, so how is possible that Zardari has done good. The track record of last 5 years; the most indecent person gets most highest position. |
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Najam Sethi is the nominee of Mr. Zardari, so how is possible that Zardari has done good. The track record of last 5 years the most corrupt person gets most highest position. |
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Please read the Nomination paper issued by Election commission of Pakistan.
pakistani people are going to be cheated again. It allowing the currupt people to come via back door. Save Pakistan.(Down with the stay orders ). |
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aoa, how ar yu najam sehti sab sir i like yu i daily watched yur progrram yu ar very good person sir i wana meet with yu plz tell me yur address thank yu........ |
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Both Najam Sethi and Muneeb Farooq are jewels in the crown of Pakistani journalism. Forceful, sensitive, vibrant. Your work is excellent and is much appreciated--moreover, it performs a crucial service to your country and the world. To Najam Sethi Sahib: I'm truly sorry you have had to weather the media hysteria on your recent visit to India. The Indian media madness over loc was shameful--and they had no right to vent their hysteria on you and other journalists in such manner. Again, sorry. |
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Mr Sethi,you are the only analyst worth listening to on the electronic media.you are very logical, fair & predictive in summing up various issues.May Allah protect you from evils & bestow you with unflinching courage to keep calling spade a spade.
God with you |
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in my views najam sethi one of the great personality in the world i like him 2 much i wanna meet him |
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I was thinking why all call sethi agent of USA and India....Watch todays programe Apas ki Baat. He is realy Son of Bitch only defending them. |
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I had lived in Pakistan for quite a while and had the pleasure of understanding the warm-hearted people, their culture as well as their native languages Urdu and Ponjabi.
I often come across your rebuttals and predictions supported by your insights from your secret sources and I must acknowledge the fact that I find it all very amusing.
Your prognostication and the confidence with which you comment on such foretellings is absolutely ludicrous.
Serving in the US with your daughter contributing to our wall street, do you feel you're being fair and just by wrongly educating the people of Pakistan? I believe you do cause you're paid for your spiceries and that's all that matters to you.
Responsive journalism and analysis requires responsive attitude and a lot of research which I find greatly lacking in you and many other anchors/pseudo-analysts in Pakistan. For what it's worth, have your statistics right and deliver only if you know you're communicating the correct information.
Sincerely,
Danny. |
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Mr. Sethi,
U r a traitor. U deserve to b hanged publicaly in all major cities of Pakistan, and then your dead body should be cut into two pieces; one shuold b thrown in India and other in USA. U always try to molest the country where u started your career. I wish to see all TV channels and persons like u be burnt to ashes. I wish u die like a ruined dog. I wish u and all corrupt politicians like Zardari get a molested death. Go to hell........... |
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i like u v much.i want to meet u.please if u come Dubai anywhere i want meet u.please inform me on face book(ahmed.shahzad1256@facebook.com).god blees u thanks |
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Dear Sethi Sb
You may like to browse my article on Balochistan recently serialised by BR.For full text along with tables, request may be sent. I do not have your email address.Warm regards
Just for memory's sake, you were scared to publish my Pakistan's Nuclear Dilemma during Zia's period.
The Balochistan cauldron-II | Business Recorder
www.brecorder.com › Top Stories |
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sethi sb u r doing a great job.realy ap wqt k suqrat he ho |
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Idiot, Ghaddar, Mulk Dushman,Qaid e azam ko galli
dene walla.... |
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Beyond Borders & ROOTS.....? where avaiable.URL.??? |
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woh din door nahi jab sathi, nusrat javeed, absar alam, hassan nisar,marvi sarmad, etc, etc, jasay gadhar-e-pakistan minare pakistan se latkaye gayen gay. aur loog kafe afsoos mal kar pochain gay kaya mila tum logoon ko zameer bach kar woh dolat woh ishrat aag kahan hay gis ka tum pujari ban kar gadaray watan kahlaye.
ab bhi waqat hay sudhar jayo asa na ho tooba ka laye akhri saans bhi na bachay. |
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Najam sethi is a very courgious journalist.we like his programme Appas ki baat very much, and watch it regularly. Pakistan need the kind of person to be on key positions.
I, MY FAMILY AND CIRCLE OF FRIENDS, THEY LOVE HIM
AND SALUTE HIM FOR HIS HONEST BOLD COUREGIOUS PERSONILITY, WE PRAY ALLAH TO KEEP HIM IN HIS AMAAN. |
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sETHI SAHIB AP KA DAMAGHI TWAZAN THEEK NAHI YA JAAN BOOJ KER ASA KERTY HAIN.IMRAN KHAN KA BHAP YA DADA POLITICS MAIN NAHI THA BUT BENAZIR KA THA.ISI LYE WO JUB AYE TO BHUTTO KI WAJAH SE LOG AYE THAY NA K BENAZIR KI WAJA SE.AUR PHIR JO BENAZIR JO AAM LAGAY HAIN WO AP NE CHOOP LYE HAIN KIA? |
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Here are some facts about sethi:
1. He and his wife are US citizens.
2. He was the only man who defended actions of terrorist Raymond Davis, and in a program has called Imran Khan jaahil.
3. He was one of those people who fought against Pak Army during the first operation in Balochistan by Bhutto, and was on payroll of RAW then.
So, he is the worst anchor. |
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SETHI SAHEB
ALL ANCHORS AND ALL THOSE PERSON WHICH ARE COMING ON TV PROGRAMS OR ON PRINT MEDEA THEY ALL ARE PUBLIC PROPERTY AND ***ET OF NATION SO WE CAN GIVE SOME REMARKS ON THEM . ONCE I WATCH YOUR PROGRAM AAPS KI BAAT.1ST I TELL YOU I HAVE NO POLITICAL MIND FROM MY POINT OF VIEW ALL POLITICIAN ARE BISNESSMAN THEY ARE INVESTING DURING ELECTION TIME AFTER THAT THEY ARE EARNING. SORRY TO SAY I FEEL YOU ARE BIASED MAY BE I AM WRONG.PLEASE DON,T MIND IT.WHAT I OBSERVED I TOLD YOU. I HOPE YOU WILL NOT MIND IT .PLEASE ACCEPT MY ADVANCE APPOLOGY. |
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He is also american citizen, correct it please |
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sethi sahib tum martey kyon ney hoo kia sanp banna hey kia maar jaa kutia. |
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Sethi sb, kuch log zameer ko bech kr ghadari krte hn aur kuch logon ko munfarid (different) nazar ane ka keera hota ha. i dnt which best fit for you. jo ap aisi anti pakistani baten krte hn. aur wo b kis tanzia andaz mn jese pak se apko bht nafrat ha. agr pak ne koi trick use ki aur wo fail ho gai to being pakistani hamen koi haq ni k ham uska mazaq urain aur expoze krein. aur india ki galt sahi bat ko justify kren. k uska right tha. plz pakistan ne apko name dia ha izat di ha aur badle mn ap??? hukmrano se gusa aur nafrat ho skti ha pak se to ni uske against to mat bolein.plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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If you do not mind sethi sab Dr mirza and his courageous news conference has exposed MQM ,Iltaf and his agenda.what do you think it is not enough for the people of pakistan to keep the real picture of MQM in their mind.Your channel sport the ideology of iltaf and his terrorist organisation MQM, which not is not journalism. |
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I you do not mind sethi sab Dr mirza and his courageous news conference has exposed MQM ,Iltaf and his agenda.what do you think it is not enough for the people of pakistan to keep the real picture of MQM in their mind.Your channel sport the ideology of iltaf and his terrorist organisation MQM, which not is not journalism. |
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think before u speak iam not as quilified as u but i am also not as nounsencs and gaddar as u promote islamic republic of pakistan and pakistaniat.one day u should have to die and u will go with just a white kafan nothing more than this.sab kuch yahan re jaye ga.for me sab se pehly pakistan .pakistan zinda bad islam zinda bad u think for u good luck |
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I have just educated myself about your career,excellent is all I can say. Living in the USA for 40 years ,there was not much available from Pakistan until recently. I listen to your program aapas ke Baat regularly. The in sight I get is mind blowing. Courageous men like you are few and we applaud you with all the fervor. We would like to invite you and your daughter (WSJ) to California some day for your perspective on the current affairs in Pakistan. |
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sethi harami gadar-e-pakistan hai . usa aur india ka kuta hai ...... |
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اس بکاو مال کا پروگرام آپس کی بکواس تو نرا بکواس ہے۔ |
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SATHI SAB ALLAH APP KI AUR AAP KI CHARIA KI HAFAZIT KERE. APP KI CHARIA KI KHABAR PAR TO SHART GEETY GA SAKTI HAY . GOOD PROTECT YOU BOTH |
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