Shahid Masood
Shahid Masood Khan is a notable Pakistani journalist, columnist, TV show host and a political analyst & commentator. He had been affiliated with the ARY One World, as its senior executive director and was the chief of the ARY One World conducting the show Views On News on ARY. Since then he recently joined GEO TV Network. Due to his moderate and rational views Shahid Masood commands huge repsect and fan following among the Pakistani people from all walks of life.
Early life
Shahid Masood born spent most of his his childhood in childhood in Taif and Riyadh, where he attended the the Pakistan International School in Riyadh for seven years. His father was a civil engineer in Saudi Arabia where he worked there for 15 years.[1] He completed his FSc from DJ Science College, Karachi, and subsequently attended Sindh Medical College receiving a MBBS degree. He started his career as a surgeon, before becoming a political commentator and analyst.[1]
Career
By training Shahid Masood is a medical doctor and held successful practices in Pakistan, Ireland and the United Kingdom. However even as a medical student, he was interested in the world around him and even took an active part in the students’ movement for democracy.[1]
Views on News
Shahid Masood came into the spotlight with his programme Views on News (launched after the 9/11 incident) Asia’s longest-running current affairs TV show that made him and ARY television channel famous across the globe. His show carried interviews with prominent people from politics, civil life, literature and culture. Politicians who have been interviewed on Views on News include President General Pervez Musharraf, former Pakistani Prime Ministers Shaukat Aziz, Benazir Bhutto and Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, MQM leader Altaf Hussain, PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif, former Pakisatni general A. A. K. Niazi (of East Pakistan fame), former CIA Director James Woolsey, and former ISI chief Hamid Gul. Famous writers who have appeared on the show include Ahmed Faraz, Dr. Israr Ahmad, Dr. Zakir Naik, the late Ashfaq Ahmed, Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi, and Munnoo Bhai.[citation needed]
The Hidden Truth - End of Times
Masood was also greatly appreciated for producing and hosting his 6-part documentary The Hidden Truth - End of Times in which he discussed the religious history and end of time predictions from the scriptures of the three Abrahamic religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism.[2] [3]
GEO TV
On January 2007 Shahid Masood joined GEO TV[4]. He now hosts a new show Meray Mutabiq which is an Urdu word meaning 'In my opinion'.
On War on terror
Ever since 9/11 Shahid Masood has been severely critical on the war on terrorism and the events unfolding upon the Muslims around the world as a result. A moderate Muslim though, he occasionally tends to have a soft spot for some the religious factions and insists that behind the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq there was not nothing but conspiracies.[5]
The war on terror is a tool in the hands of anti-Muslim crusaders. But this war is not between Christianity and Islam or Judaism and Islam. All three are religions under the same God — Almighty Allah. It is only certain practitioners of these religions who have a vested interest. Muslims must distinguish between such elements and those who are as much victims of this unholy war as Muslims are. Nevertheless, one cannot deny the fact that the rise of religious extremism in Western societies is alarming.
— Dr Shahid Masood on the war on terrorism.[1]
See also
- Hamid Mir
- Ayaz Amir
- Irfan Hussain
- GEO TV
- Views On News
- ARY One World
- ARY
- 2007 Pakistani state of emergency
References
- ^ a b c d "Dr. Shahid Masood: The Voice of the Voiceless". Amna Ehtesham Khaishgi. Retrieved 2006-09-12.
- ^ "The Hidden Truth".
- ^ "End of Times".
- ^ "Dr Shahid Masood joins Geo network".
- ^ "SECOND OPINION: Dr. Shahid Masood's passionate folly". Khaled Ahmed’s TV Review. Retrieved 2004-16-03.
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