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Introduction

Syed Khurram Zaki (Urdu: سید خرم زکی) is a Research Scholar, Journalist, Civil Society and Social activist from Karachi, Pakistan. Born in a Syed Sunni-Deobandi family on 26 March, 1976, he completed his early education from Karachi briefly attending FAST-NUCES during 1998-2001 being enrolled in BCS programme. He also served as Directing Staff in Defence Services Intelligence Academy, Islamabad teaching Technical Intelligence. He joined BTL division of Interflow Communications as Brand Activation Manager back in 2002 and later on moved to Airwaves Media (TV One/News ONE) as Director/Producer in Current Affairs and Infotainment department. After Sajjad Mir, the renowned jornalist, moved to Waqt News Lahore, he became the Head of Current Affairs and Infotainment for TV One and News ONE. He resigned in protest from Airwaves Media when one of his investigative report on Osama bin Laden irked and caused unease in the sector headquarters of security and intelligence agencies. He briefly worked with few other channels including Good News. Right now he is the Editor of top Pakistani blog and news website "Let Us Build Pakistan" (commonly known as LUBP).

Professional Career

Contact Plus

His professional career started in 2002 from Contact Plus which is a BTL division of Interflow Communications. He worked with Strategy Department as Activation Manager which was then headed by Syed Abdul Karim Tanveer. His first assignment during his stay with Contact Plus was to lead and manage a loyalty club, Club Lipton, for Lipton, leading tea brand of Unilever Pakistan. The idea of this loyalty club was to interact and engage the youth (target market of Lipton) in an interactive and creative fashion thus building the long term loyalty with the brand. He also worked on different other brands of Unilever like "Walls" and "Supreme Tea".

TV One/News ONE

He joined TV One in 2005 as Director/Producer in Current Affairs department working under Sajjad Mir (former Editor of daily Nawaiwaqt). He directed and produced "Sajjad Mir kay Sath", "Taboo", "Front Page" and many others current affairs and infotainment programs including hosting a number of religious shows himself like "Sirat e Mustaqeem" and "Deen Dialogue".. Within two years of joining TV One/News ONE, Taher A. Khan asked him to head the current affairs and infotainment department as Sajjad Mir left News One for Waqt News, Lahore. He also conducted a number of current affairs and political talk shows like "Front Page" and "Election Beat" focusing Terrorism, Talibanization, Sectarianism and Security issues.

Controversies

He became widely known for his private discussion and debate with late Dr. Israr Ahmed on the causes of early schism among Muslims including the issue of Caliphate. The video of this discussion was leaked to different media hosting websites and became viral in a very short span. Israr Ahmed was failed miserably to answer specific and precise questions raised by Masood Raza and Khurram Zaki and to defend the traditional doctrine of Caliphate as conceptualised by Sunni school of thought, during the three hour discussion.