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Farrukh Shahbaz Warraich
Born
فرخ شہباز وڑائچ

12 February 1993
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Alma materUniversity of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab
Occupation(s)Content Producer, Researcher, Columnist, Editor, President of PFUC
Employer(s)PTV News, Lahore
Websitehttp://farrukhshahbaz.com/

Farrukh Shahbaz Warraich (Urdu: فرخ شہباز وڑائچ) born 12 February 1993, Lahore) is a Pakistani journalist, Urdu columnist and political analyst.[1] He is associate with Urdu Point.[1] He was associate with PTV News as Content Producer & Researcher. His column appears regularly in Daily Nai Baat. He has earlier worked with leading Urdu newspapers. Starting his journalistic career as a freelancer while still being a student and since then he has written number of analytic columns on current political issues and domestic politics of Pakistan.[2]

Birth and education

Farrukh Shahbaz Warraich was born in Lahore, Punjab on February 12, 1993. He belongs to a Punjabi speaking Warraich family of Southern Punjab. His hometown is Layyah District, Punjab. In 2009, Farrukh passed matriculation examination from Ravian Foundation Grammar School. In 2011, he passed the exams of Intermediate from Government Science College Lahore. In 2013, he got Graduation Degree from University of the Punjab, Lahore.[citation needed]

Currently he is fellow of Mass Communication Department in University of the Punjab, Lahore.[citation needed]

Career as columnist

As columnist, Farrukh wrote many articles for different newspapers. He worked with different Print Media Groups of Pakistan like Royal Media Group, Jehan Pakistan Media Group.[3] He also wrote features for Monthly Hikayat Magazine, Weekly Family Magazine, and Weekly Nai Baat Magazine.

He started his career as Columnist from Daily Din Newspaper in 2012. In 2013, he wrote articles for Jehan Pakistan Newspaper till 2015. Currently, His column appears regularly in Daily Nai Baat from January 2016. His online article can be read on Hamari Web.[4]

Editor of Paigham Digest, Arqam and Zauq International

Farrukh was associated with Monthly Paigham digest as Editor also he is Incharge of Kids Edition of Daily As-Sharq, along with these He is President of PFUC (Pakistan Federal Union of Columnists). 40th Special Issue of Paigham Digest has been issued in the Editorship of Farrukh.

Along with these, Farrukh is Administrator Editor of Quarterly magazine Zauq International and Quarterly magazine of Monthly Arqam. He writes his famous Column "Nawai-e-Haq" for Daily Nawai-e-Waqt Newspaper.

Chairman of PFUC

On May 24, 2018, Farrukh was elected chairman of Pakistan Federal Union of Columnists (PFUC) for 2018-19 in elections held recently.[5]

Farrukh is one of the founding members of PFUC and he was President of Pakistan Federal Union of Columnists (PFUC) .

PTV News

He is associate with PTV News as Content Producer & Researcher.

Other activities

Farrukh is fellow in Mass Communication in University of the Punjab, Lahore, and he is most active in different activities in that Department. On Friday December 11, 2015, he elected Founder-President of PU-ICS, Punjab University's Institute of Communication Studies.[6][7] On January 20, 2016, he and his friends celebrated the 143th birthday of Maulana Zafar Ali Khan in Maulana Zafar Ali Khan's Library of that Department.[8]

Award

Farrukh was awarded by renowned Columnist and Chief Editor of Daily Pakistan Newspaper Mr. Mujib-ur-Rehman Shami in Annually Workshop of PFUC.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "Farrukh Shahbaz now at Urdu Point".
  2. ^ "Farrukh Shahbaz Warraich". Farrukh Shahbaz Warraich.
  3. ^ "فرخ شہباز وڑائچ۔ اُردو پوائنٹ". UrduPoint (in Urdu). Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  4. ^ "Articles & Columns by FARRUKH SHAHBAZ WARRAICH". www.hamariweb.com. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  5. ^ "PFUC chairman elected". 24 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Media's role in eliminating corruption stressed". DailyTimes. Archived from the original on 2016-02-16. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  7. ^ "PU students sensitised on corruption". The Nation. 12 December 2015. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  8. ^ "Nai Baat Details". naibaat.com.pk. Archived from the original on 2016-02-15. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
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