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Fawad Khurshid; Fawad Khurshid is a broadcast journalist, at present he is leading the News team for the launch of a new TV channel of ATV. Previously, he was director News of Neo TV Network a channel of Naibaat media group. He has also been looking after news operations in Capital TV in Islamabad. During Pakistan’s General Elections, he headed the election coverage cell and hosted related programming for his channel. He has encyclopaedic knowledge of Pakistani elections and has a good grasp over the facts and figures related to elections.

Before Capital TV, Khurshid was associated with Dawn News TV, Pakistan’s first English language channel, as a Senior Producer News output & Correspondent of Supreme Court and Geo News as a producer and anchor. At Geo, he hosted and produced a program based on stock market called ‘Tezi Mandee’ for over 3 years. He also did business reporting for the channel.

Khurshid has worked both in front of the camera and behind and has varied work experience of both news and programming. He was member of the launching teams at Dawn News TV, Capital TV and Neo TV.

Khurshid has also been teaching media courses as a visiting faculty at various Pakistani universities.

Apart from English and Urdu, he is a student of Chinese, Russian and Arabic languages and can understand Pashto.

Fawad Khurshid has an MBA from IBA Karachi a prominent Pakistani university. He also received the prestigious Chevening Scholarship and headed to City University London and completed his Master’s in Broadcast Journalism.