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

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Early life and education

Waseem was born in Karachi, Pakistan on 7 February 1985. He graduated with MBA degree in Marketing from

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Career

Badami started his career by giving traffic updates on radio during that he was studying at

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. 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

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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

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. 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

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followed by

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. In 2022, Waseem started his podcast show on

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, "Podcast with Waseem Badami".

Awards

In 2016, he was awarded "Favorite Current Affairs Anchor – Male" award by

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. In 2018, his brand WB by Hemani got "Emerging brand of the year" award. In 2019, he won the 10th Pakistan Achievement Award for the “Best Ramadan Transmission Host”.

References

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• {{DEFAULTSORT:Badami, Waseem Living people Pakistani television talk show hosts ARY News newsreaders and journalists BOL Network people Pakistani male journalists 1985 births