Waseem Badami is a Pakistani television host and news anchor who currently hosts a political talk show ''11th Hour'' on

ARY News ''ARY News HD'' () is a Pakistani news channel launched on 26 September 2004 with the name "ARY One", the channel was later renamed to "ARY One World" until May 2009 when it was rebranded as "ARY News". A bilingual news channel in English and ...

Career

Badami started his career by giving traffic updates on radio while he was studying at a university. After that he joined Business Plus channel as a researcher. Later his sheer hard work gave him reward and out of thousands of people he got selected for

in 2006 and there he started his career as a journalist and an anchor person. Later, he left the channel in October 2014 and subsequently joined

BOL Network BOL Network () is a Pakistani TV network based in Karachi. The company's head office is located in Karachi and called Bolistan, and it has regional headquarters in Lahore, Peshawar and Islamabad. It was founded by Shoaib Ahmed Shaikh. In Sep ...

as an Executive Vice President and Senior Anchorperson. In April 2015, he resigned from

and rejoined

. He is currently hosting the popular talk show "11th Hour" on

He also hosts '' Shan-e-Ramazan'' on

ARY Digital ''ARY Digital HD'' () is a Pakistani television network available in Pakistan. ARY Digital was founded by a Dubai-based holding company Pakistani businessman, Abdul Razzak Yaqoob and Salman Iqbal (ARY). The network is focused towards on Pak ...

. He is famous for his “Masoomana Sawal” which has become his identity. He also hosts a cricket-related show ''Har Lamha Purjosh'' mainly during

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In 2017, Badami partnered up with Hemani Herbals and launched organic products and skin care

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named "WB" after his initials. The product was launched in

Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

followed by

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

. In 2022, Waseem started his podcast show on

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, "Podcast with Waseem Badami".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Badami, Waseem Living people Pakistani television talk show hosts ARY News newsreaders and journalists BOL Network people 1985 births Mass media people from Karachi