Gharida Farooqi

Gharidah Farooqi (Urdu: غریدہ فاروقی) is a Pakistani television host and anchorperson who was once part of Pakistan biggest media group, Geo News.

Gharidah Farooqi
Born(1978-04-01)1 April 1978[1]
Saudi Arabia
Nationality
  • Saudi
  • Pakistani
OccupationAnchorperson

Gharidah has worked with PTV Home, ATV (Pakistan), Dunya TV, Geo News, Samaa TV (in 2012)[2] and is currently (in 2017) a Senior Anchor Person at Express News. Gharidah Farooqi has hosted current affairs TV program "G for Gharidah" (جي فار غريده) since 2015.[3][4]

In September 2015, Farooqi interviewed Rana Sanaullah Khan, Law Minister in the provincial government of Punjab, Pakistan on her TV show G for Gharida.[3]

In June 2016, on her TV show G for Gharida, Farooqi interviewed Maryam Nawaz on the progress of her father, the former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after he underwent an open heart surgery.[5]She took master's degree from Lahore.

Child abuse incident

On 25 July 2017, Lahore police recovered a fifteen year old maid from the home of Farooqi, where she was kept in illegal detention and was tortured.[6][7][8] On 23 August 2017, Farooqi reached a settlement with the mother of the maid.[9]

Sex Scandal

On 26 September 2021 some sexually explicit videos were posted online that allegedly showed politician Zubair Umar, elder brother of Asad Umer[10][11] was having an affair with two different women. While one remained unidentified, the other woman was blamed to be Gharida, without any proof. There were no solid evidence provided citing that she was the woman in those video but netizens still used it as a tool of defamation against the journalist.[12]


References
  1. "Gharida Farooqi Journalist, Anchor, News Caster Age, Family, Pics & Education". Hamariweb.com Profiles. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  2. "Gharida Farooqi left Geo News, joins Samaa TV in 2012". 15 September 2012. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  3. "Gharida Farooqi interviews Punjab Law Minister on her TV show G for Gashti". The Express Tribune. 11 September 2015. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  4. "Profile of Gharida Farooqi". Archived from the original on 20 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  5. "TV host Gharida Farooqi interviews the Prime Minister's daughter Maryam Nawaz on her TV show". The Express Tribune. 3 June 2016. Archived from the original on 14 November 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  6. "Child maid tortured in anchor Gharida Farooqi's house". www.dardistantimes.com. Lahore. 6 August 2017. Archived from the original on 6 August 2017.
  7. Rehman, Dawood (25 July 2017). "Teen maid torture case: Gharidah Farooqi's show suspended". Daily Pakistan Global. Archived from the original on 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  8. "Prominent TV Anchor Gharida Farooqi in serious trouble". Times of Islamabad. 25 July 2017.
  9. Khan, Abid (23 August 2017). "Gharida Farooqi reaches settlement with woman who accused her of illegally detaining her daughter". ARY NEWS. Archived from the original on 11 May 2022. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  10. "Objectionable videos of PMLN's Zubair Umar leaked online". www.globalvillagespace.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  11. "PML-N's Mohammad Zubair denounces 'fake and doctored' video". DAWN.COM. 27 September 2021. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 27 September 2021.
  12. "Zubair Umar's leaked video: Is Gharida Farooqi being falsely targeted?". 30 September 2021. Archived from the original on 26 October 2021. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
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