Najam Sethi
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Najam Aziz Sethi (born on May 20, 1948) is a Pakistani journalist and businessman who is the author of The Friday Times and Vanguard Books.
He served as Chairman of Pakistan Cricket Board, caretaker Federal Minister of Pakistan, and Chief Minister of Punjab, Pakistan. He is a left-leaning journalist who serves as the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times and serves as Chairman of Pakistan Super League as a journalist.
During the 2013 election, he served as Punjab's caretaker chief minister.
According to Geo News, he used to host Prime Time current affairs show Aapas ki Baat.
He is currently the President of AAP Media Network / Indus News.Najam Sethi began his socioeconomic activism with the Baluchistan people, resulting in his detention in 1975 and his dismissal in 1978.
Sethi and his wife Jugnu Mohsin founded Vanguard Books, a progressive book publishing firm, in 1989. The Friday Times was a newspaper published in England.
He was arrested by the second Nawaz Sharif government in 1999 on trumped-up suspicion of treason before being released by the Supreme Court of Pakistan.
He founded the Daily Times of Pakistan in 2002 and became its editor until he resigned in October 2009.
He served as the Pakistan reporter for The Economist from 1990 to 2008.Sethi also received the Golden Pen of Freedom Award from the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the 2009 World Association of Newspapers.
As a result of consensus among members of the selection committee, which included representatives from both the government and opposition political parties, his name was approved for the interim position of the Chief Minister of Punjab on March 26, 2013.
He took the oath on March 27, 2013 and then resigned from office after the May 2013 elections on June 6, 2013.
Personal life
Sethi is married to fellow journalist Jugnu Mohsin, the editor of The Friday Times. The couple have two children, Ali Sethi, author and singer Ali Sethi, and journalist and actress Mira Sethi.
Career
Sethi conceived of the idea for an independent Pakistani newspaper out of sheer rage: although briefly arrested in 1984 on trumped-up copyright charges, no newspapers had protested his detention. Sethi was "too popular an offender" to be granted a publishing licence under Mohsin's name, and Mohsin told him that she planned to launch "a social chit chat forum with lots of pictures of parties and weddings." It was finally approved in 1987, but Mohsin requested a one-year extension to prevent the first issue from emerging during General Zia ul Haq's draconian reign. In May 1989, the paper's first issue appeared.
Sethi gave an interview to a reporter for the BBC television show Corret, which was supposed to cover graft in the Nawaz Sharif government in early 1999. He had been warned by contacts that his inter-cooperation with the team was being misinterpreted by the Nawaz Sharif government as an attempt to destabilize the team and that government agents were planning Sethi's detention. Punjab Police personnel took him from his house on May 8th. At least eight armed officers burst into the house, assaulting the family's security guards, according to Sethi's wife Mohsin; one of them threatened to execute Sethi on the spot; another one stabbed Sethi for the first time. Mohsin was tied up and held in another room.
Sethi was detained for over a month without being charged. At a detention facility in Lahore, he was kept incommunicado. Amnesty International maintained that his deposition was unrelated to government corruption investigations, and that he had been designated as a prisoner of conscience. The US-based Committee to Protect Journalists sent Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif a protest note, noting the organization's surprise "that the country continues to abuse independent journalists," and World Bank president James Wolfensohn called Sharif to demand Sethi's freedom.
Authorities charged Sethi with "Condemnation of the Recruitment and Advocacy of Abolition of its Sovereignty" and "Promoting Enmity Between Different Groups" on June 1st. However, the Supreme Court of Pakistan held that the government had insufficient evidence to support Sethi's detention the next day. He was released, and the charges against him were dropped.
My Feudal Lord, Mohsin and Sethi's publishing company, was published in June 1991, a "politically charged" book about her marriage with leading political analyst Mustafa Khar. Durrani's book claims that Khar mistreated and assaulted her. It was a "instant sensation" and later became Pakistan's "hottest book." Durrani has signed a deal with Mohsin that guarantees international recognition and has been given to her 50% of foreign royalties.
Nevertheless, Durrani called a press conference on May 19 to denounce him as having stolen all of her money from the book, prompting Sethi's one-month incommunicado detention. Durrani sued Sethi for mental torture, and he countersued for defamation. In 1992, a court case concerning the foreign rights had been decided out of court for the first time. Sethi was described as "the injured party" in a review by the British newspaper The Independent, a newspaper that distributed newspapers in the United Kingdom.
The Taliban threatened him with death in 2008, when Sethi's newspapers published a series of editorials condemning religious fundamentalism, causing him to live under constant surveillance. In July 2008, Sethi received death threats after releasing an editorial cartoon depicting Umme Hassaan, principal of a girls' academy, urging young women in burqas to "kidnap Chinese masseuses." The parody joke involved Lal Masjid, the fundamentalist Masjid at which her husband Abdul Aziz Ghazi was a cleric; the mosque had abducted six Chinese women accusing of being prostitutes, resulting in Ghazi's deposition.
On Sunday, Najam Sethi was elected as the caretaker Chief Minister (CM) Punjab, which were scheduled to be held on May 11, 2013. PPP (Pakistan People's Party) and the opposition announced his name, and the opposition, PML-N (Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz), which agreed on it, accepted it. He was then elected Chief Minister of Pakistan's province, Punjab. Shahbaz Sharif, the newly elected Pakistani Muslim League's leader, resigned on June 6, 2013. PTI, the party that lost the 2013 election, had accused Najam Sethi of rigging the elections in 35 constituencies and popularly called them the 35 punctures.
After the Islamabad High Court ordered the appointment of an interim chairman before a pending lawsuit concerning serving chairman Zaka Ashraf was found, the Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif appointed him as the acting chairman of Pakistan's Pakistan Cricket Board. Later, a two-member bench of the Islamabad High Court cleared Zaka Ashraf and ordered his reinstatement as chairman PCB. Sethi relinquished chairmanship in the process.
Najam Sethi resigned from Pakistan's Chairman after Imran Khan was elected as the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the 2018 Pakistan General Election. Prime Minister Imran Khan sacked former ICC President Ehsan Mani, who resigned shortly after, he took a tweet.