Junaid Saleem

Hailing from Okara, Junaid Saleem's career in the field of journalism spans more than 2 decades. Mr Saleem did his Master's in Mass Communication from Punjab University and has worked with the renowned media groups in the country. He also has had the honour to work abroad for an Urdu Daily of the Arab News Group. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Daily Insaaf.

About AZIZI (Sohail Ahmad)

Sohail Ahmad aka Azizi is a comedian, and stage and TV actor, most notable for comedy stage dramas based in Lahore. He is also the writer and director of many stage plays. Recently Mr. Sohail Ahmed has proved himself to be an outstanding director when he produced and directed his second Drama Serial SHAAM, which was written by Mr. Iqbal Hasan Khan, a known playwright and short story writer of Pakistan. Azizi is the persona Sohail Ahmed walks into when he appears on our show Hasb e Haal, the most watched TV program in Pakistan and abroad (has a viewership of 100,000 viewers on the internet, mostly in Americas and Europe; the numbers are picked from Youtube and awaz.tv). The raw data-points indicate that the character Azizi and the show have the highest hit rate count in the West for any show on air currently. The popularity of Azizi is understandable in a society which has lost its relevance and looks at reality through half open windows. Where scruples are sham and morals mostly a facade to impose upon each other one's perceived dominance: Azizi brings the freshness of being unabashedly pedestrian. In August 2010, Azizi was awarded with Presidential medal for Pride of Performance for best performance in television industry. It is for the first time that an impersonating character of a TV show has been bestowed with the honor of receiving this covetous prize.