Waqt News is a Pakistani news channel owned by Nawa-i-Waqt media group founded by Hameed Nizami. It was launched in early 2008 in Pakistan. Nawa-i-Waqt is considered to be one of the most vocal media groups in Pakistan. This group has a long history for being critical of the Federal Government.

Waqt News is available throughout Pakistan on Local cable operators as well as on satellite.

Waqt (وقت, वक़्त pl. awqat أوقات) is the Hindi-Urdu and Arabic word for Time. It may also refer to:

News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third-party or mass audience.

One theory claims that the English word "news" developed in the 14th century as a special use of the plural form of "new". In Middle English, the equivalent word was newes, like the French nouvelles and the German neues. Similar developments are found in the Slavic languages – the Czech and Slovak noviny (from nový, "new"), the cognate Polish nowiny and Russian novosti – and in the Celtic languages: the Welsh newyddion (from newydd) and the Cornish nowodhow (from nowydh).

Before the invention of newspapers in the early 17th century, official government bulletins and edicts were circulated at times in some centralized empires.

The first documented use of an organized courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC). This practice almost certainly has roots in the much older practice of oral messaging and may have been built on a pre-existing infrastructure.

Moeed Pirzada (Urdu: پیرزاده‎ معيد) is a Pakistani political commentator and TV journalist. He is currently working as Director World Affairs and lead anchor person for PTV News-TV channel and hosts a popular talk show Sochta Pakistan, a program that discusses national, regional, strategic, social and educational issues with leading politicians, analysts and policy makers. Previously, he was working with Dunya News-TV channel as Director World Affairs and was hosting a current affair talk show Dunya Today. He has also been a columnist for Dubai based regional paper Khaleej Times. His columns have also appeared in Pakistani papers like Dawn,The News, Daily Times and Friday Times Many of such columns had been reproduced in regional websites like Chowk.com and blogs. He has widely spoken in national and international conferences, seminars and policy workshops and is a member of the Prime Minister's Education Task Force that collaborated with British Council to produce the Next Generation Report. He has also contributed policy papers to Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI).

Altaf Hussain (Urdu: الطاف حسین) (born 17 September 1953 in Karachi) is the founder and leader of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM). The MQM emerged as the third largest political party in the national assembly of Pakistan during 1988 and 1990 elections. The MQM secured representation in the parliamentary elections held in the northern areas of Pakistan comprising Kashmir & Gilgit-Baltistan. Since 1992 he has lived in the United Kingdom in self exile after surviving an assassination attempt in Pakistan.

Altaf Hussain was born to Nazir Hussain and Khursheed Begum on 17 September 1953 in Karachi.His parents belonged to religious families from Agra, India. After the formation of Pakistan in 1947, his parents migrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi. Hussain’s grand-father, Mufti Mohammad Ramazan, was Grand Mufti of the town of Agra, UP, India and his maternal grand-father Haji Hafiz Raheem Bhux was a reputed religious scholar in India.

Altaf Hussain got his early education from Govt Comprehensive School, Azizabad No. 8 Karachi. He then completed his matriculation in 1969 from Government Boys Secondary School. He attended National College Karachi during First Year of his Intermediate Education (Pre-Medical/Science) but switched to City College Karachi during Second Year of Intermediate from where he completed Intermediate.After that he went on to complete his Bachelors of Science from Islamia Science College (Karachi) in 1974 apart from completing his Bachelor of Pharmacy by 1979 from the University of Karachi. After completion of his Bachelor of Pharmacy he later enrolled for his Master’s degree.