Nusrat Javed


Nusrat Javed, is a Pakistani columnist, journalist and a former news anchor.. He is among the seniormost journalists in Pakistan having started his career in 1975. Beginning as a reporter, he made a mark as a columnist, before shifting to television. However, since 2019, he is no longer associated with television, and instead concentrates on writing columns. Though based in Islamabad, his writings often show a longing for his city of Lahore.
Javed began his television career with his program Bolta Pakistan on AAJ TV. He and his co-host, Mushtaq Minhas, then moved to Dunya TV to host the talk show Dunya Mere Agay, which followed the same format as Bolta Pakistan, but later came back to AAJ TV to resume Bolta Pakistan. His last stint as a news anchor was with AAP TV, and since then he has concentrated on writings columns. Nusrat Javed is known for his reporting on parliamentary affairs titled "Notes from the Press Gallery."

Career

Javed used to co-host the show Bolta Pakistan on AAJ TV with Mushtaq Minhas. He also writes columns in Urdu and English for an Urdu daily newspaper Nawa-i-Waqt and The Nation respectively. On 22 January 2015, Nusrat Javed joined BOL News as Executive Vice President & Senior Anchorperson. Javed was the first Pakistani reporter to cover Indian elections in 1984 and since then, he has covered all elections held in Pakistan as well as India. He also has extensive experience in coverage of the conflict zones, including Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

TV shows

He has worked on the following shows:
He left Aaj News in 2016 to join Dawn News to present the talk show Bol Bol Pakistan hosted by Gulmeenay Sethi. However, the show was taken off air in November 2018 citing financial reasons, though industry experts viewed it otherwise referring to the episode as another incident where media houses were pressurised to take off programs considered unfavourable to the ruling government and the state . His last television programme was called Baharhall with host Aniq Naji and Mishal Bukhari on AAP TV, after which he returned to full-time column writing.