Javed Chaudhry

Javed Chaudhry (Urdu, جاوید چوہدری; born January 1, 1968) is a Pakistani columnist, YouTuber, and journalist who has been hosting the Kal Tak show on Express News since 2008. He also writes Urdu columns on various topics in his Zero Point series in the Daily Express.

Personal life
Javed Chaudhry was born on January 1, 1968, in Lala Musa, Gujrat District of West Pakistan to a Muslim Punjabi Gujjar family. He graduated from the Islamia University of Bahawalpur with degree in Mass Communication. He also enrolled in a few courses at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University.

Career
Javed Chaudhry started journalism in 1991, with work on Daily Ummat and Daily Khabrain. He has been writing Urdu columns since 1997 under the header Zero Point. In 1997, he joined Daily Jang as a columnist. All Pakistan Newspapers Society declared him The Best Urdu Columnist of 1997 and 1998. He left Jang and joined Express News in 2006, and has been hosting a political talk show titled Kal Tak since 2008. Since 2010, he has also been writing English columns for The Express Tribune.

During his career, Javed has interviewed some of the prominent personalities, such as Malala Yousafzai, former president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Chairman PTI Imran Khan and Co-chair PPPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

Javed is also a part time Hakeem. He has also done a program about male weakness

Award(s)

 * In November 2023, Islamia University of Bahawalpur awarded Doctorate of Philosophy degree to Javed Chaudhry
 * Government of Pakistan awarded him Sitara-e-Imtiaz on the 75th anniversary of the country's independence.
 * 'APNS Best Columnist of Pakistan'' award (1997–98)
 * Nominated for Agahi Award 2020.

Controversies and criticism
Javed Chaudhry has faced criticism on multiple accounts. In 2012, he was accused of victim blaming, on basis of his April 1 column in the Urdu newspaper Daily Express. In 2018, in his satirical article, he claimed that Bushra Bibi married Imran Khan, after being directed by the Prophet in a dream. Bushra blatantly rejected this claim. Javed was also criticized for doing nothing, during popular stand-off between Qadir Mandokhail and Firdous Ashiq Awan which led to Awan slapping Mandokhail, in his show. In 2019, he published alleged interview of by-then NAB chairman Javed Iqbal in his column published on Daily Express, which NAB called fake and untrue.