{{Short description|Pakistani television news channel}} {{Use Pakistani English|date=June 2018}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox television channel | name = {{Lang|ur-latn|AAJ NEWS HD}} <br /> ''{{Nastaliq|آج نیوز}}'' | logo = Aaj News (television channel) logo.png | logo_size = 120px | logo_caption = {{Lang|ur-latn|AAJ News|italic=no}} logo since March 2009 | launch_date = {{start date and age|2005|03|23}} | picture_format = ([[1080p]] [[16:9]] [[HDTV]], [[MPEG-4]]) | owner = Business Recorder Group | website = {{url|https://aaj.tv/}} | country = Pakistan | language = [[Urdu language|Urdu]] | headquarters = [[Karachi, Sindh]], [[Pakistan]] | former_names = AAJ TV (2005–2009) | sister_channels = Aaj Entertainment <br> Play Entertainment }}
'''{{Lang|ur-latn|Aaj News HD|italic=no}}''' ({{Langx|ur|{{Nastaliq|آج نیوز}}|lit=Today News}}) is a 24-hour Pakistani news [[television]] channel. It is a privately owned [[Urdu language]] TV station which covers national and international news. It began as a hybrid channel (news, current affairs and entertainment), but later separated its entertainment programming to sister channel Aaj Entertainment, and became a news channel.<ref name=BBC>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-18590179 Taliban attack Pakistan's Aaj TV station in Karachi] BBC News website, Published 26 June 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-19898774 Pakistan media condemn attack on teenage activist] BBC News website, Published 10 October 2012, Retrieved 11 November 2021</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27779474 Pakistani media demand action over airport attack] BBC News website, Published 10 June 2014, Retrieved 11 November 2021</ref>
==History== Aaj News was started on 23 March 2005 by the Business Recorder Television Network, a subsidiary of Business Recorder Group which also operates Aaj Entertainment.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/543008/blurred-vision/|title=Blurred vision: Where is Pakistani television headed? |newspaper= The Express Tribune|date=5 May 2013|access-date=11 November 2021}}</ref>
On 22 April 2007, [[Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority|PEMRA]] served a show-cause notice to Aaj News, for violating the 2002 PEMRA Ordinance by airing news and talk shows on an issue pending with the [[Supreme Judicial Council of Pakistan|Supreme Judicial Council]] and unable to present a NOC from the [[Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (Pakistan)|Ministry of Information & Broadcasting]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2007-04-23|title=Pemra serves notice on TV channel|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/243698/pemra-serves-notice-on-tv-channel|access-date=2020-09-24|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|language=en}}</ref>
On 23 March 2009, Aaj News was converted into a 24-hours news channel.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aaj News|url=https://pakistan.mom-rsf.org/en/media/detail/outlet/aaj-news/|access-date=2021-11-11|website=Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website|language=en}}</ref> The Recorder Television Network comprises Aaj News and Aaj Entertainment.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Business Recorder Group - profile|url=https://pakistan.mom-rsf.org/en/owners/companies/detail/company/company/show/business-recorder-group/|access-date=2021-11-11|website=Media Ownership Monitor Pakistan website|language=en}}</ref>
==Programmes== ===Hosts=== ====Current==== * [[Munizae Jahangir]]
====Former hosts==== * [[Azfar Rehman]] * [[Asma Shirazi]] * [[Rana Mubashir]] * [[Sana Bucha]] * [[Syed Talat Hussain]] * [[Javed Ahmed Ghamidi]] * [[Ali Saleem]]
==Former programs== *''[[3 Idiots (TV series)|3 Idiots]]'' *''News, Views & Confused'' (a satirical comedy hosted by [[Fasi Zaka]])<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/27/AR2007112702243_pf.html?noredirect=on How Pakistan's Satirists Poke Fun, Politically] The Washington Post (newspaper), Published 28 November 2007, Retrieved 11 November 2021</ref>
==See also== *[[List of Pakistani television stations]] *[[List of news channels in Pakistan]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{official website}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Aaj Tv}} [[Category:24-hour television news channels in Pakistan]] [[Category:Television networks in Pakistan]] [[Category:Television channels and stations established in 2005]] [[Category:Television stations in Pakistan]] [[Category:Urdu-language television channels]] [[Category:Television stations in Karachi]] [[Category:2005 establishments in Pakistan]]