Wakas Mir

Wakas Mir
Birth name	Wakas Mir
Born	(1977-11-02) 2 November 1977
Show	Wakas Mir LIVE
Website	www.WakasMir.com

Wakas Mir (Urdu: وقاص میر‎), is a Pakistani-born Norwegian national. He's a Radio Host mostly noted for his hit radio online show called Wakas Mir LIVE and has also been the host for a radio talk show in Oslo, Norway called ApniAwaz Radio. There he provided his services as an anchor hosting shows on social issues that revolved around Asians in Norway. Wakas left Apniawaz due to his busy schedule.

Biography

Wakas Mir was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He lived in Pakistan until he was 10 years old and then moved to Norway with his mother and grand mother, to his dad. Being artistically inclined right from childhood, he was always drawn towards anything that required artistic skills or a good voice. Having a drive towards achieving the goals he set for himself he worked towards education in Fine Arts and Civics in Government College University, Lahore.

Having studied in the same Govt. College as the famous Pakistan pop star Ali Zafar. Wakas has on various occasion performed with Ali in college functions. But is more inclined to do Islamic nasheeds rather than songs.

Dabbling in various careers ranging from being a British Gas agent to being a web designer at Dotmusic better known these days as Yahoo music. He finally found that his forte was web designing & currently works as a Project Manager for a Media Company in Oslo, Norway. His interests in the arts also has him honing his skills as a host to the Wakas Mir Live show broadcast through CrazeFM.

Poetic activities

Wakas also explored his interests in poetry & has written hundreds of poems in English, Hindi, Punjabi & Urdu. He writes on a variety of subjects ranging from life to emotions, love, relationships & positivity. One can access his poetry in the various online collections. While his English poems have already been published in a collection, his Urdu poems are now being collected to be published.^[1]

Other fields

He has also been quite active when it comes to marketing online. With his marketing skills, he has managed to take the radio station he had launched, CrazeFM, to new heights.^[2] The various methods of replicating the radio streams on the biggest Asian portals gained his website, CrazeFM,^[3] lots of exposure. His designing skills also came into use in this site. All these that won him the Best and most Popular TV / Radio site.^[4] On 26 July 2011, Wakas Mir, initiated one of the largest Facebook groups and was on national TV to talk about his campaign for peace. His group resulted in a national peace march that brought out almost a million people on the roads of Norway.^[5]

Wakas Mir LIVE – The Liveshow

Wakas normally brings up topics in his shows that cause a stir. He has also interviewed some of the biggest names in the Indian TV industry and dozens of top Bollywood singers and celebrities. Below is a list of the very few of the thousands he has done that were well received.

• Josef Fritzl – Making of the demon – This show was about the guy who made the headline news in May 2008. A talk with Nils Ally made lots of points obvious that the reason behind his "reasoning" was nothing other than what was programmed in Josef since childhood.

• When color is the reason why a marriage stops – This show touched on the widely prevalent problem of color discrimination existing in Asian community

• Marriages in different castes – This show covered how castes are seen as reasons by millions of families that make their children stop on their tracks if they fall in love with someone from a different caste.

• The Halal chicken debate – This one caused a huge stir that made lots of Norwegian Muslims think twice before they purchased chicken that was denoted as Halal

He has also interviewed the top guns of Bollywood, such as Sunil Shetty, Sonu Nigam, Kumar Sanu, Babul Supriyo, Sukhwinder Singh, and many Pakistani celebrities including Abrar ul Haq, Faakhir Mehmood and Haroon from Awaz and many Zee TV, Sony Entertainment Television Asia and Star Plus celebrities, mostly those in the leading roles like Mohammad Iqbal Khan of the 'Angad' Fame Hiten Tejwani of Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Mona Singh from Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin, Manav Gohil TV anchor & actor & many more .

All the shows above can be heard on Wakas Mir LIVE

Achievements along the way

• Initiated a national peace march after the 22 July bombing in Norway – 26 July 2011
• Performed his Islamic Nasheed (Naat) on NRK 1 (Norwegian National TV) – 23 September 2009
• Best and Most Popular TV / Radio Site (CrazeFM.com – 2007) – Websites of India Awards
• Poem "Written in the sky" was selected to be published in the book (Twilight Musings – 2005)
• Performed a patriotic song for Pakistan on Mela 2004 (Group : Devotion). Song was televised world over on Prime World
• Highest achievement in maths and Artist of the year three years in a row – OAS, Oslo American School

99.3 FM – Norway

Wakas is currently presenting a program on 99.3 FM which can be heard in Oslo and online. The program focuses on the issues that Muslims and Pakistanis are going through in Norway. Some topics being brought up are quite sensitive and that's what makes the discussions interesting. Listeners may also listen to the previous shows at Deen-o-Dunya

Organisations and social work

In August 2012, Wakas launched campaigns to surface the issue of Palestine. He managed to get in touch with various warehouses who sold products made in the occupied areas of Palestine requesting them to stop selling them. His second campaign was targeting the Israeli dates, via the site BloodDates.com. He saw that the Israeli dates sold to Muslims in Ramadan were the result of numerous accounts of human rights abuses in the farms. He urged local stores in Norway to sign a petition to not sell the dates in the next Ramadan making the brands realise what they do has an impact on others around the world who wish peace in the region.

To further bring the cause of Palestine to the public, Wakas is actively working in an organisation called "Al-Aqsa Komiteen". The work around this committee will have a goal to get as many people as possible to see the real situation of the way things are deteriorating in Israel.

Wakas Mir is also the Services Committee Leader in Islamic Council Norway (Islamsk Råd Norge). In this committee he is responsible for projects revolving around Muslim rights, graveyard services for Muslims and other projects that revolve around the 200 000 Muslims living in the country.

Personal life

Wakas lost his mother to cancer in the end of 2009. He got married in the year 2010 and is now residing in Oslo with his family. Wakas closed down his Online Radio station, CrazeFM.com due to some other ventures and lack of time. At the moment of shutting down crazefm it was one of the most visited Asian radios on the web.

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