Dunya News

Dunya News is an Urdu language news and current affairs television channel from Pakistan. It is governed and operated by National Communication Services (SMC) Pvt. Ltd. Its head office is situated at Lahore, Pakistan.

Network

Bureau offices are located in the following cities:

Bureaus abroad include:

All bureaus are connected live 24/7 through satellite and fiber optics.

There is a fleet of 20 DSNG vans with auto-locking satellite mobile links for instant news coverage.

Popular shows

Notable journalists

Mukarram Khan Atif, who was a reporter for Dunya News, was killed by the Pakistani Taliban on January 17, 2012 for his reporting.

Competitors

See also

Dunya

Dunyā (دُنْيا) is originally an Arabic word that was passed to many other languages such as Persian, Dari, Pashto, Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, Kurdish, Nepali, Turkish, Arumanian, North-Caucasian languages, Malay, Swahili, and Indonesian as well as modern Greek. It means the temporal world—and its earthly concerns and possessions—as opposed to the eternal spiritual realm, or the hereafter (ʾākhirah). Dunyā most literally means 'closest' or 'lowest'. In the Qur'an, dunyā and ākhira represent oppositions in temporal, spatial and moral dimensions: now and later, below and above, evil and good, respectively. Two Qur'anic ayat (verses) illustrating these points are:

Muslims are encouraged in the Qur'an 47:24 to ponder the verses of the Qur'an itself, and to do their best to not get too attached to this temporal existence and its trappings. In Islam, dunyā is a test; success and failure lead to paradise and hell respectively Quran 57:20.

Mazaaq Raat

Mazaaq Raat (Urdu :مذاق رات ) is a Pakistani comedy television show that airs Monday to Wednesday nights on Dunya TV.Vasay Chaudhry hosts the show, with the Mazaaq Raati team consisting of Amanullah Khan, Sakhawat Naz, Iftikhar Thakur and Mohsin Abbas Haider as DJ. On her visit to Lahore, Pakistan, Indian film actress Swara Bhaskar appeared as a guest on the show in April 2015.

Noman Ejaz left that show due some other works but now Vasay Chaudhry hosts the show. The show is recorded in front of a studio audience at Dunya News headquarters. In August 2013, a pilot show was broadcast to gauge its audience appeal. During the pilot, the cast was introduced as:

When the show was started in series format, some of the characters were modified. Mujahid Abbas and Sardar Kamal appeared on some shows as well. Astrologer Samiah Khan also appeared on some shows, playing the character of Chacha Bashir's fiancée.

Kamran Shahid

Kamran Shahid (Urdu: کامران شاھد ) is a Pakistani journalist. He is the main news anchor for the TV show Frontline with Kamran Shahid on Express News. He was a guest speaker for the Oxford University Pakistan Society at Oxfordshire County Hall during Pakistan Young Leaders Conference in February 2011. Kamran Shahid belonges to a Gujjar family.He belonges to Kot Radha Kishan a tehsil of district Kasur. His father is a well known Pakistani film actor / artist Shahid.

References

The Front

The Front is a 1976 comedy-drama film about the Hollywood blacklist during the age of live television. It was written by Walter Bernstein, directed by Martin Ritt and stars Woody Allen and Zero Mostel.

Because of the blacklist, a number of artists, writers, directors and others were rendered unemployable, having been accused of subversive political activities in support of Communism or of being Communists themselves.

Several people involved in the making of the film – screenwriter Bernstein, director Ritt, and actors Mostel, Herschel Bernardi, and Lloyd Gough – had themselves been blacklisted. (The name of each in the closing credits is followed by "Blacklisted 19--" and the relevant year.) Bernstein was listed after being named in the Red Channels journal that identified alleged Communists and Communist sympathizers.

Plot

In the early 1950s, in New York City, restaurant cashier and small-time bookie Howard Prince (Woody Allen) has a friend who writes for television. Because the friend, Alfred Miller (Michael Murphy) has been blacklisted, he asks Howard to sign his name to the TV scripts.