Aaj News

Aaj News (Urdu: آج نیوز, lit. 'Today News') is a 24-hour Pakistani news television channel. It is a privately owned Urdu language TV station which covers national and international news. The channel started out as hybrid channel (news, current affairs and entertainment), but later separated its entertainment programming to sister channel, Aaj Entertainment, and became a news channel.[1][2][3]

AAJ NEWS
آج نیوز
CountryPakistan
HeadquartersKarachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Programming
Language(s)Urdu
Picture format
Ownership
OwnerBusiness Recorder Group
Sister channelsAaj Entertainment
History
Launched23 March 2005 (2005-03-23)
Links
Websiteaaj.tv

History

Aaj News was initially started on 23 March 2005 by The Business Recorder Television Network, subsidiary of Business Recorder Group.[4]

The Business Recorder Group is the parent company of Business Recorder newspaper and Apex Printery, the only non-government organization to print financial and legal papers in Pakistan.

On 22 April 2007, PEMRA served a show-cause notice to Aaj News, for violating the 2002 PEMRA Ordinance by airing news and talk shows on an issue pending with the Supreme Judicial Council and unable to present a NOC from the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting.[5]

On 23 March 2009, Aaj News was converted into a 24-hours news channel.[6] The Recorder Television Network comprises Aaj News and Aaj Entertainment.[7]

Notable programmes

Currently programmes
  • AAJ Pakistan with Sidra Iqbal
  • AAJ Rana Mubashir Kay Saath
  • AAJ Islam with Khalid Malik
  • Faisla Aap Ka with Asma Shirazi
  • Gol Gapain
  • Rubaru
  • Spotlight
  • Sawal Hai Pakistan Ka
  • Target
  • Tax Aur Aap
  • View 360 (VOA)

Formerly Progammes

Drama series
  • Aaj Ki Kahanian
  • Chandini
  • Kuch Hai
  • Phir Youn Love Hua
  • Qissa-e-Ulfat
  • Suraj Girhan
  • Sultanat
  • Sooli
  • Shikast
  • TV3 Karachi

Sitcoms
  • Choki no 420
  • Hera Pheri & Co
  • Hum Shadi Nahin Karo Gay
  • Mirch Masala
  • Urban Desi

Foreign programmes

Children series

Special Programming
  • Kuch Cricket Ho Jaye
  • AAJ Pakistan Ki Awaz

See also

References
  1. Taliban attack Pakistan's Aaj TV station in Karachi BBC News website, Published 26 June 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021
  2. Pakistan media condemn attack on teenage activist BBC News website, Published 10 October 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021
  3. Pakistani media demand action over airport attack BBC News website, Published 10 June 2014, Retrieved 11 November 2021
  4. "Blurred vision: Where is Pakistani television headed?". The Express Tribune (newspaper). 5 May 2013. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  5. "Pemra serves notice on TV channel". Dawn (newspaper). 23 April 2007. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  6. "Aaj News". Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  7. "Business Recorder Group - profile". Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  8. How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically The Washington Post (newspaper), Published 28 November 2007, Retrieved 11 November 2021
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