Fasi Zaka

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Fasi Zaka (Left) with Nadeem F. Paracha (Right), Karachi, 2006.
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Fasi Zaka (Left) with Nadeem F. Paracha (Right), Karachi, 2006.

Fasi Zaka is a television host, satirist and music critic in Pakistan. He rose to prominence in 2004 with an off-beat program called On the Fringe, which he also scripts.

Zaka is a University of Oxford graduate (and a Rhodes Scholar). Like many current Pakistani music and culture writers, Zaka is a an admirer of Nadeem F. Paracha and has followed Paracha into writing a weekly column in The News International, the mass circulation Pakistani daily for which Paracha has written for the last thirteen years.

He is one the very few critics and show-biz personalities who has actually managed to strike a strong friendship with the otherwise reclusive and eccectric, Paracha.

Recently Zaka got additional fame for heading a controversial radio show called the Fasi Zaka Show on a popular Pakistani FM radio station.


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