Mubashir Luqman is one of the most popular and experienced news analyst and host of Pakistani media industry. He is one of the few journalists of Pakistani media industry who are widely known for their investigative stories. Mubashir Luqman has proved himself as a successful and dedicated journalist of Pakistan during his career and becomes center of attraction during his series of several scandals of Pakistan. He is a prime time host of Pakistani media industry and is known for his principle stance on several issues of Pakistan. He had also received many threats during his career but he never give up and continued his journey on the same track.
Early Life and Education
Mubashir Luqman was born on 11th January, 1962 in Lahore, Pakistan. He got early education from his hometown and the got admission in popular educational institution Aitchison College Lahore. After completing his Intermediate education from the college, Mubashir Luqman continued his studies and took admission in Government College Lahore. During his student life, Mubashir Luqman had proved himself as a dedicated and talented student. His skills and talent had inspired many of his teachers throughout his studies.
Early Career
Despite of his popularity in the journalism field, Mubashir Luqman had started his career from an advertising agency as a Copy Writer. He had worked in the advertising industry of Pakistan for several years and proved his skills through his script for the advertisement of top local and multinational brands of Pakistan including Coca Cola, Nestle and many others as well. After this, Mubashir Luqman had setup a production company of his own which developed software and content for television channels of Pakistan.
[junkie-alert style=”white”] He also entered in the film industry of Pakistan through his film Pehla Pehla Pyar in 2006, as a director and producer. But the film didn’t able to attract the viewers and flopped. [/junkie-alert]
After this failure, Mubashir Luqman quit the film industry and then worked in the corporate sector. During his corporate career, Mubashir Luqman had worked on key positions of several corporations like WorldCall Group, ARY Digital, NTM (First Private Television Network of Pakistan), PAKTEL and others as well.
Journalism Career
Mubashir Luqman had started his journalism career from Business Plus channel as a host. During his first experience on the television screen, Mubashir Luqman had covered many socio economic and political problems of Pakistan. Due to his brilliant stance on several important issues of the country, he joined popular and one of the biggest media group of Pakistan Express News as a host and started his new program there. Later on he joined Dunya News as a program host and started hosting his program there.
In 2012, Mubashir Luqman had conducted an interview with property tycoon of Pakistan, Malik Riaz with his co-host Meher Bukhari. Some controversial clips of that program leaked on social media and Youtube, in which it seems that the interview was planted. After so much criticism on social media and political circle, Dunya News had fired him to avoid any further controversy. He then joined ARY News in 2012 and started hosting program Khara Sach.
During his almost 8 years journey with ARY News, Mubashir Luqman had covered many corruption and irregularity stories in different corporations and ministries of Pakistan. He had also covered a story of blasphemy attempt and attack on ISI by the biggest media group of Pakistan, Jang/Geo news in 2014. Several episodes of the scandal were broadcasted from ARY News on that issue. Later on, Mubashir Luqman had also badly criticized judiciary for several issues and faced cases in the courts. He had also faced criticism from a popular political party of Urban Sindh after exposing their military wings and his program got banned in some cities.
[junkie-alert style=”white”] In 2014, when PEMRA imposed ban on the program Khara Sach for airing allegedly baseless stories disturbing for institutions, he resigned from ARY News and joined Bol News in 2015. [/junkie-alert]
He had hosted some episodes of his program “Meri Jang”, on Bol News during its test transmission but in late 2015, he resigned from the channel as a protest for non-payment of salaries to his whole team. He then joined Channel 24 as a host.
Contact
Mubashir Luqman is active on his social media accounts including Facebook and Twitter. He regularly updates his status on his social media accounts and reply to the comments of his fans and followers there. He is running social media accounts with the name “Mubasher Lucman”.