{{Short description|Pakistani journalist (born 1984)}} {{distinguish|Mahek Bukhari}} {{Use Pakistani English|date=September 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox person | name = Meher Bukhari |other names = | image = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1984|2|29}} | occupation = TV News anchor, Journalist | known_for =Known for her bold and focused style of questioning as a journalist | spouse = Kashif Abbasi | employer = Dunya News (2012, 2024-present)<br/>Dawn News (2016-2021)<br>/ Hum News (2021)<br/>ARY News (2023-2024)}}
'''Meher Bukhari''' ({{langx|ur|{{nq|مہر بخاری}}}}) is Pakistani television anchorperson and host. After a controversial stint at Dunya News in 2012 and Dawn News (2013), Bokhari is currently associated with ARY News since May 2023.<ref name=PakistanHerald/>
==Early education and career== Meher Bukhari started her career as a journalist and a host on TV news programs for SAMAA TV.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|date=2013-01-21|title=Meher Bokhari set to join DawnNews: Report|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/496939/meher-bokhari-set-to-join-dawnnews-report|access-date=2024-09-21|work=The Express Tribune newspaper|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140825214805/http://tribune.com.pk/story/496939/meher-bokhari-set-to-join-dawnnews-report/|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 August 2014}}</ref><ref name=PakistanHerald/> Meher Bukhari married ARY News talk show anchorperson Kashif Abbasi.<ref name=PakistanToday>{{cite news|url=https://archive.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/11/17/kashif-abbasi-and-mehr-bokhari-married-now/|date=18 November 2011|url-status=dead|title=Kashif Abbasi and Meher Bukhari married now|newspaper=Pakistan Today newspaper|archive-date=15 August 2021|access-date=6 April 2026|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815182634/https://archive.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/11/17/kashif-abbasi-and-mehr-bokhari-married-now/}}</ref><ref name=PakistanHerald/><ref name=UrduWire>{{cite web|url=http://www.urduwire.com/people/Meher-Bukhari_177.aspx|archive-date=27 October 2012|title=Meher Bukhari profile|website=Urduwire.com website|url-status=dead|access-date=21 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027022829/http://www.urduwire.com/people/Meher-Bukhari_177.aspx}}</ref>
She had a stint with Dunya News after departing from Dunya News, she joined Dawn News in 2013 as a talkshow anchorperson where she hosted her show ''NewsEye''.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=Dawn>{{Cite news|work=Dawn newspaper|date=2020-04-06|title=Not as close to Imran as I was but still his friend, says Jahangir Tareen (to journalist Meher Bukhari)|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1546962|access-date=2024-09-21|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421120945/https://www.dawn.com/news/1546962|archive-date=21 April 2023|url-status=dead}}</ref> In February 2021, she left Dawn News and joined Hum News.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2021-02-21|title=نامور صحافی مہر بخاری ہم نیوز کا حصہ بن گئیں|url=https://www.humnews.pk/latest/307597/|access-date=2024-09-21|work=Hum News (TV News channel)|language=ur|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518065010/https://humnews.pk/latest/307597/|archive-date=18 May 2024|url-status=dead}}</ref> Bukhari was born in 1984 and during her early years, raised in Pakistan. She went abroad in pursuit of higher education, but later returned to pursue her professional career in Pakistan.<ref name=PakistanHerald>{{Cite web|title=Meher Abbasi (also known as Meher Bukhari before her marriage to Kashif Abbasi) - Profile|url=http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/meher-abbasi-1229|access-date=2024-09-21|website=PakistanHerald.com website|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129065641/http://www.pakistanherald.com/profile/meher-abbasi-1229|archive-date=29 January 2022|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Scandals== === 2012 Interview Scandal === On 13 June 2012, Bukhari and co-host Mubashir Lucman on Dunya News, interviewed Malik Riaz, Pakistani property tycoon and owner of the Bahria Town Group, who had made a string of corruption accusations against Arsalan Iftikhar, son of the then Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry. One day after the interview aired, a recording of supposedly off-air conversations between Bukhari, Lucman, and Riaz during scheduled breaks of the interview surfaced on YouTube. The nature of the conversation and comments gave credence to the assertion that the entire interview was staged to benefit Malik Riaz by asking guided questions to give Riaz the opportunity to malign the then Chief Justice.<ref name=Tribune>{{Cite news|date=2012-06-14|title=Video leak: Lucman, Bokhari run 'planted show' with Malik Riaz (with journalists Meher Bukhari and Mubashir Lucman)|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/393636/video-leak-lucman-bukhari-run-planted-show-with-malik-riaz |access-date=2024-09-21|newspaper=The Express Tribune newspaper|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240514042318/https://tribune.com.pk/story/393636/video-leak-lucman-bukhari-run-planted-show-with-malik-riaz/|archive-date=14 May 2024|author=Sheheryar Popalzai|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-03-17|title=Thou shalt not judge|url=https://herald.dawn.com/news/1152831|access-date=2024-09-21|newspaper=Herald (Magazine) (Dawn Group of Newspapers)|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230421120947/https://herald.dawn.com/news/1152831|archive-date=21 April 2023|author=Mubashir Zaidi|url-status=live}}</ref>
== See also == * SAMAA TV * Dunya News
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