Lawyer, Anchor
Born: 27 October 1948
Profession: Lawyer, Anchor
Affiliation(s): Geo News
Citizenship: Pakistani
Profile
Naeem Altaf Bokhari (born October 27, 1948) better known as Naeem Bokhari is a Pakistani television personality and a Senior Advocate Supreme Court who currently hosts a show Khabarnaak on a Pakistani news channel Geo News. Bokhari was born in Lahore, Pakistan to Dr Syed Altaf Hussain Bokhari. He is the younger brother of famous Pakistani fast bowler Saleem Altaf Bokhari. He was formerly married to popular Ghazal singer Tahira Syed (1975- 1990).Bokhari has two children, a son, Hasnain and a daughter, Kiran with his first wife, both of whom are lawyers by profession. Kiran is married and working in New York City.Bokhari married Tamannah Khan in 1995 and has a son, Abbas and two daughters,Noor Zainab and Noor Fatimah from the second marriage
TV shows
Recently Naeem Bokhair joined Khabarnak, a TV talk show on Geo TV. He replaced Aftab Iqbal who was hosting the show before him. Naeem Bokhari has hosted famous TV talk shows including Apne Andaz Se and Naeem Bokhari ke saath on which he has interviewed many famous and influential personalities of the Pakistani society. He interviewed Imran Khan during his work at Khabarnak.
Open letter controversy
His open letter against Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry published on Feb 16, 2007 created a controversy and this is also attributed to the eventual dismissal of the Chief Justice by President Pervez Musharraf. The Punjab Bar Council reacted only after March 9, 2007, when the controversy had reached a peak and dismissed his membership in Punjab Bar Council. Subsequently, his membership was renewed.
On 9 March 2007, Gen Musharraf, the then President of Pakistan, had un-ceremonially sent home the then Chief Justice of Pakistan [CJP] named Iftikhar M Chaudhry. Most of the charges listed against Justice Chaudhry were contained in a letter written by the lawyer Mr Naeem Bokhari to him. A copy of the same letter was placed before the CJP Chaudhry by the DG [MI] when he was called in the Army House that day. Some office bearer believed that the said letter was got written on government’s instance - it was purposefully but ‘secretly’ leaked to the press.
Most of the alleged charges against the CJP Chaudhry were related with his son Dr Arsalan Iftikhar’s police career while he was a doctor on the pay roll of Baluchistan government (taken up from Mr Naeem Bokhari’s letter mentioned above). When the reference against CJP was brought to the Supreme Judicial Council [SJC] then those in the government who had been facilitating the CJ’s son in his pursuit of a police career were ready to speak against him.
Naeem Bokhari’s letter contained name of the Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao, whose ministry had issued orders to treat Dr Arsalan extraordinarily [just to please the CJP], right from his posting from Balochistan to the FIA, and then allowing him to get police training along with probationers of the Police Service of Pakistan (PSP Cadre). The letter mentioned that the junior VVIP got special treatment because of his CJ father. Later, Dr Arsalan Iftikhar was appointed in FIA on deputation after seeking the written consent of the Federal Interior Minister; Naeem Bokhari had given details.
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