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Javed Chaudhry
Javed Chaudhry[a] (Punjabi pronunciation: [d͡ʒəˈʋeːd t͡ʃɔː(ɦ)dəˈɾi]; born 1 January 1968) is a Pakistani columnist,[1][2] YouTuber, and journalist who has been hosting the Kal Tak show on Express News since 2006.[3][4][5] He also writes newspaper Urdu columns on various topics in his Zero Point column series in the Daily Express newspaper.[1][4][6] Personal lifeJaved Chaudhry was born on 1 January 1968, to Chaudhry Muhammad Khan, in Gujrat District of West Pakistan.[4] He graduated from the Islamia University of Bahawalpur with a degree in Mass Communication.[7][1][4] He also enrolled in a few courses at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.[8][9] CareerJaved Chaudhry started journalism in 1991, with work on Daily Ummat and Daily Khabrain.[1] He has been writing Urdu columns since 1997 under the header Zero Point. In 1997, he joined Daily Jang as a columnist. All Pakistan Newspapers Society declared him The Best Urdu Columnist of 1997 and 1998.[7] He left Jang[8] and joined Express News in 2006, and has been hosting a political talk show titled Kal Tak since 2008.[3][10][11] Since 2010, he has also been writing English columns for The Express Tribune.[12] During his career, Javed has interviewed some of the prominent personalities,[13][14] such as Malala Yousafzai,[15] former president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf,[16] Shah Mahmood Qureshi,[13] Chairman PTI Imran Khan[17] and Co-chair PPPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.[18] Bibliography
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Controversies and criticismJaved Chaudhry has faced criticism on multiple accounts. In 2012, he was accused of victim blaming, on the basis of his April 1 column in the Urdu newspaper Daily Express. In 2018, in his satirical article, he claimed that Bushra Bibi married Imran Khan, after being directed by the Prophet in a dream. Bushra blatantly rejected this claim.[22][23] Javed was also criticized for doing nothing, during popular stand-off between Qadir Mandokhail and Firdous Ashiq Awan which led to Awan slapping Mandokhail, on his show.[24] In 2019, he published alleged interview of by-then NAB chairman Javed Iqbal in his column published in Daily Express,[25] which NAB called fake and untrue.[26] NotesReferences
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