Early life
Ameer Abbas (21 September 1984) was born in Faisalabad,Punjab, Pakistan. He belongs to an agriculturist family. His early schooling was at Little Angels School Faisalabd & Divisional Public School Faisalabad.
Personal life
He has been a national-level demagogue speaker and out-spoken debater in his school and college life. He remained president of debating and literary societies, editor of college magazine and honored with roll-of-honor in debates. He has been inclined towards books reading since he was 8 years only. Ameer has passion of reading and his father has also been a very keen books and newspapers reader. This may be a reason behind his healthy addiction of reading. He was only 18 when he had read all the available literary work of Asia’s great fictionist Sa’adat Hasan Manto, poetry of Iqbal, Bahadur Shah Zafar, Ghalib. He is very much impressed from Sahir Ludhianvi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Habib Jalib. He is very sophisticated in his nature and a soft-spoken person. He is the first man from the land of Jhang who entered electronic media as an anchor. The people of Jhang admire and love him a lot the way he loves the city of his ancestors.
Career
Ameer Abbas is a Pakistani television journalist and anchor who currently works for Waqt News. He has served country’s leading news channel Dunya News as a news anchor from May 2010-October 2010. Later he joined another famous news channel of the country Express News in October 2010. He covered major breaking news stories across the country from Data Darbar bomb blast, Abbottabad Usama operation, Mehran Base attack, Bannu Jail attack, Air-blue plane crash, NRO detailed decision, PM Yousuf Raza Gilani disqualification to dozens of other nationally and internationally known events. Recently in June 2012; after serving Express News for almost two years, he joined re-launching team of Waqt News, Nawa-i-Waqt group as an Anchor of News and Current Affairs. Now a days hosting a show named "Jaiza" on News One.
His news reading style doesn’t resemble with any other news anchor being a unique. He is master in making sentences in urdu while anchoring. His vocabulary is very articulated. His selection of words according to the situation is brilliant. He can add emotions and feelings in a dead matter in a superb manner.
Before joining Electronic Media, he worked as a banker for four years. He served in nationally acclaimed multinational bank, Bank Alfalah Limited. He resigned in March 2009 as a Regional In-charge FRMU.
Column Writing:
Ameer Abbas’s weekly column "Ameer-e-Shehr" in Nawa-i-Waqt has got boom and great appreciation, which was never observed before for any other young column writer. His beautiful descriptive and fiction oriented writing-style differs him from dozens of other columnists. He is staggering in writing Motivational and Inspirational Columns which usually ends with a moral and lesson.
He was elected as the first president of Chenabeans Alumni Association, Chenab College Jhang. He is also an architect of the constitution and the infra-structure of the said association. |