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Place of Birth: Kasur, Punjab, Pakistan
About Najam Sethi
- Najam Aziz Sethi (Punjabi: ??? ?????; born c.
- 20 May 1948) is a Pakistani journalist and businessman who is founder of The Friday Times and Vanguard Books.
- Previously, as an administrator, he served as Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, caretaker Federal Minister of Pakistan and Chief Minister of Punjab, Pakistan. As a journalist, he is a left-leaning political commentator who serves as the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times and serves as Chairman of Pakistan Super League.
- He has also served as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab during the 2013 election.
- He formerly used to host primetime current affairs show Aapas ki Baat on Geo News.
- He is currently the President of AAP Media Media Network / Indus News.Najam Sethi began his sociopolitical endeavours with the socialist movement working for the rights of Baluchistan, leading to his arrest in 1975 before being discharged in 1978.
- He consequently left politics and established Vanguard Books, a progressive book publishing company.In 1989, Sethi along with his wife Jugnu Mohsin launched an independent English weekly, The Friday Times.
- He was arrested by the second Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 on trumped-up charges of treason before being released by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
- In 2002, he founded the Daily Times of Pakistan and became its editor until leaving in October 2009.
- He also served as the Pakistan correspondent of The Economist from 1990 to 2008.Sethi won the 1999 International Press Freedom Award of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the 2009 World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award.
- On 26 March 2013, his name was approved for the interim position of the chief minister of Punjab as a result of consensus between members of the selection committee comprising individuals from both the governing and the opposing political parties.
- He took the oath on 27 March 2013, and left the office after the May 2013 elections on 6 June 2013.
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