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Najam Sethi (Najam Abdul Aziz Sethi) was born on 20 May, 1948 in Kasur, West Punjab, Pakistan (present-day Punjab, Pakistan), is a Pakistani journalist and cricket administrator (born 1948). Discover Najam Sethi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Najam Abdul Aziz Sethi
Occupation Journalist, TV Anchor
Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 20 May, 1948
Birthday 20 May
Birthplace Kasur, West Punjab, Pakistan (present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
Nationality Pakistan

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His wife is Jugnu Mohsin (m. 1983)

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Children Mira Sethi (daughter) Ali Sethi (son)

Najam Sethi Net Worth

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1948

Najam Aziz Sethi (Urdu, ; born 20 May 1948 ) is a Pakistani journalist, businessman and cricket administrator who formerly served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in three different tenures.

He is also the founder of The Friday Times and Vanguard Books.

He has served as a caretaker Federal Minister of Pakistan and Chief Minister of Punjab.

As a journalist, he is a left-leaning political commentator who serves as the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times and formerly served as the Chairman of the Pakistan Super League.

1975

Najam Sethi began his sociopolitical endeavours with the socialist movement working for the rights of Balochistan, leading to his arrest in 1975 before being discharged in 1978.

He consequently left politics and established Vanguard Books, a progressive book publishing company.

1984

According to Sethi, he first conceived of the idea for an independent Pakistani newspaper out of frustration: while briefly imprisoned in 1984 on trumped-up copyright charges, no newspapers had protested his arrest.

The following year, he and Mohsin applied for a publishing licence under Mohsin's name, since Sethi was "too notorious an offender" to be use the application, Mohsin told him that she intended to publish "a social chit chat thing, you know, with lots of pictures of parties and weddings".

1987

It was finally approved in 1987, but Mohsin requested a one-year delay to avoid the first issue coming out during the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq.

1989

In 1989, Sethi along with his wife Jugnu Mohsin launched an independent English weekly, The Friday Times.

The paper's first issue appeared in May 1989.

1990

He also served as the Pakistan correspondent of The Economist from 1990 to 2008.

1991

In June 1991, Mohsin and Sethi's publishing company, Vanguard Books, released Tehmina Durrani's My Feudal Lord, a "politically explosive" book about her marriage with leading politician Mustafa Khar.

In the book, Durrani alleges that Khar mistreated and abused her.

It was an "instant sensation" and later became the "hottest book in Pakistan's history".

Durrani signed a contract vesting foreign rights with Mohsin and giving her 50% of foreign royalties.

1992

An earlier dispute over the foreign rights had been settled out of court in 1992.

A review of the contracts by the UK newspaper The Independent described Sethi as acting in good faith and described him and Mohsin as "the injured party".

1999

He was arrested by the second Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 on trumped-up charges of treason before being released by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.

Sethi won the 1999 International Press Freedom Award of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the 2009 World Association of Newspapers' Golden Pen of Freedom Award.

In early 1999, Sethi gave an interview to a team for the BBC television show Correspondent, which was planning to report on corruption in the Nawaz Sharif government.

At the beginning of May, he was warned by contacts that his co-operation with the team was being interpreted by the Nawaz Sharif government as an attempt to destabilize it and that officials were planning Sethi's arrest.

On 8 May, he was taken from his home by personnel of Punjab Police.

According to Sethi's wife Mohsin, at least eight armed officers broke into the house, assaulting the family's security guards; when asked to produce a warrant, one of them threatened simply to shoot Sethi on the spot.

Mohsin was tied up and left locked in another room.

Sethi was then held for almost a month without charge.

He was kept incommunicado at a detention center in Lahore.

Amnesty International stated its belief that his arrest was connected with his investigations into government corruption, and designated him a prisoner of conscience.

The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists also sent a protest letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, noting the organisation's dismay "that the state continues its persecution of independent journalists", and World Bank president James Wolfensohn called Sharif to urge Sethi's release.

On 1 June, authorities charged Sethi with "Condemnation of the Creation of the State and Advocacy of Abolition of its Sovereignty" and "Promoting Enmity Between Different Groups" and transferred him to police custody.

However, the following day, the Supreme Court of Pakistan ruled that the government had provided insufficient evidence to justify Sethi's detention.

He was released, and the charges against him were dropped.

On 19 May 1999, however—during Sethi's one-month incommunicado detention—Durrani called a press conference to denounce him as having stolen all of her earnings from the book, stating that his actions were "an even bigger case of hypocrisy than my experience with the feudal system".

Durrani sued Sethi for mental torture, and he countersued for defamation.

2002

In 2002, he founded the Daily Times of Pakistan and became its editor until leaving in October 2009.

2013

He has also served as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab during the 2013 election.

He formerly used to host primetime current affairs show Aapas ki Baat on Geo News.

He is currently the President of AAP Media Media Network / Indus News.

On 26 March 2013, his name was approved for the interim position of the chief minister of Punjab as a result of consensus between members of the selection committee comprising individuals from both the governing and the opposing political parties.

He took the oath on 27 March 2013, and left the office after the May 2013 elections on 6 June 2013.