Breaking News: Waqt News Channel Completely Shutdown in Pakistan



Lahore : Waqt News has closed its operation throughout the country and the whole staff has been shunt out . Though the TV channel administration has fired around 200 staff members including their anchors in the name of right sizing to control its expenses .

But tonight Islamabad based a senior journalist & former anchor of Waqt News tweeted that ” whole of the Waqt News staff sacked and offices across Pakistan shut down.”

A few days before ;joint action committee consisting upon Lahore based journalists had staged protest against the termination of jobs of the channel staff and demanded their immediate restoration.

Waqt News was a Pakistani TV news channel owned by Nawa-i-Waqt media group founded by late Majeed Nizami. It was launched in early 2007 in Pakistan.

Nawa-i-Waqt is considered to be one of the most vocal media groups in Pakistan.

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وقت نیوز ٹی وی کا تمام عملہ نوکریوں سے فارغ اور پاکستان بھر کے دفاتر بند کر دئیے گئے-

— Matiullah Jan (@Matiullahjan919) October 29, 2018

Is it End of @Waqtnewstv? All News staff sacked and offices across Pakistan sealed. Two more channels are also next in line in coming months.

— Zahid Gishkori (@ZahidGishkori) October 29, 2018

That's terrible - an entire news channel shuts down in Pakistan https://t.co/rAeRLRY2w9

— omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) October 30, 2018