Sohail Sarwar Warraich (; born 1961) is a Pakistani
journalist
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Roles
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and
television
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host
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People
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Career
Warraich is the host of the GEO TV Programmes Ek Din Geo k Sath, an interview-based TV program on lifestyles of celebrities. He also used to host ''Left Right'', a political talk show posing right-wing and left-wing political arguments. Warraich used to support the left wing on this TV show. He used to come on a programme ''Meray Mutabiq'' every Sunday, an opinionated interview/talk show based on Warraich's analytical views on current issues along with TV journalists
Hassan Nisar
Hassan Nisar ( Punjabi, Urdu: ; born 5 July 1951) is a Pakistani journalist, newspaper columnist, TV news analyst,Iftikhar Ahmad. Sohail Warraich is also a human rights activist responsible for
Amnesty International
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Pakistan's Human Rights Project.
Warraich joined Dunya News as Executive Director on 23 January 2017. Later, he rejoined
Geo TV
Jang Media Group (), also known as Geo Group, is a Pakistani media conglomerate and a subsidiary of Dubai-based company Independent Media Corporation. It has headquarters in Printing House, Karachi.
It is the publisher of the Urdu language new ...
in 2020.
Warraich is considered to be an authority on Punjab's political families, clans or 'biradari' system voting trend prevalent in Punjab's election politics.
In 2024, he was awarded the President's
Pride of Performance
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for
Journalism
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.
Books
*''Qatil Kaun?''
*''Ghaddar Kaun?'' (2006) (based on interviews when Nawaz Sharif was in exile in Saudi Arabia)
*''Gernailun Ki Siasat''
*''Adalia Ke Urooj Ki Kahani''
*''Mazhabi Siasat Ke Tazadaat''
*''Chotay Soobay Punjab Se Naraz Keun''
*''The Party is Over'' (2018) (inside stories of the disqualification of former Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif
Mian Muhammad Nawaz Sharif (born 25 December 1949) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan, prime minister of Pakistan for three non-consecutive terms, first serving from 1990 to 1993, then ...