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Masood Raza and Huma Amir to host morning show on BOL News

 JournalismPakistan.com |  Published 10 years ago

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Masood Raza and Huma Amir to host morning show on BOL News

ISLAMABAD: Prominent anchorpersons Masood Raza (pictured) and Huma Amir Shah will host a morning show on upcoming BOL News Television.
 
A source tells JournalismPakistan.com the channel's management has been working on the design of the morning show while both journalists rehearse for the program.
 
Shah is a broadcast journalist and has hosted morning shows and current affair programs on numerous channels including PTV, Aaj TV, Express 24/7 (defunct) and PTV World. She graduated from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, in Defense and Strategic Studies in 1999.
 
Raza started his career in broadcast journalism as a newscaster/host from Geo TV in Karachi. He also hosted “Aaj Kamran Khan K Sath” on the Geo TV in the absence of senior anchorperson Kamran Khan.
 
The source said the management first asked Waseem Badami to co-host the morning show with Huma Amir Shah but the latter declined to do so. Badami resigned from BOL News and rejoined ARY News.

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