Introduction
Kamran Shahid(Urdu: کامران شاہِد ), is a Pakistani anchor, academician, author and journalist. He is the main news anchor for the TV show On The Front with Kamran Shahid on Dunya News.
Personal life
Kamran Shahid belongs to a Rajput family. He belongs to Punjab district Lahore.
His father is the well known Pakistani film actor / artist Shahid Hameed, while his mother, Munaza Shahid, studied from Kinnaird and has been an academic.
Education
He holds a degree in International Relations from the University of Westminster, London. He has presented research papers at different international forums.
Career
He started his career in television journalism from PTV. As a current affairs television anchor, Kamran has not confined himself to any one format. He has done a variety of programmes from hard hitting socio-political and current affairs talk shows to documentaries and docu-dramas. He has to his credit many investigative programmes as well. He has also conducted very informative and hard-hitting one-on-one interviews with many leading personalities including international dignitaries.
Kamran Shahid leads the Flagship show at Dunya News—On the Front ---four day a Week -Mon-Thur—at 8.03 pm. He was a guest speaker for the Oxford University Pakistan Society at Oxfordshire County Hall during Pakistan Young Leaders Conference in February 2011.
Works
Books
- Gandhi and the partition of India : a new perspective, Lahore : Ferozsons, 2005, 124 p.
- International relations & political theory, Lahore : Ferozsons, 2006, 235 p.
Movie as director
- The Trial (2017)