Aamir Liaquat Hussain is a Pakistan politician, television personality, actor, and comedian. He is one of Pakistan’s top 100 most popular personalities. Hussain is a well-known television anchor who has been named three times to the list of the world’s 500 most important Muslims. He is the politically active as a member of National Assembly of Pakistan.
Wiki/Biography
Aamir Liaquat Hussain was born on Monday, 5 July 1971 (age 50 years; as of 2021) in Karachi, Pakistan. His zodiac sign is Cancer. He attended a government school for his primary and secondary education. Later, he got himself enrolled at the Liaquat Medical College Jamshoro, Pakistan to earn bachelor’s degree in medicine and Surgery. Next, he went to Dublin and attended Trinity College Dublin from where he earned a master’s degree in Islamic Studies and did PhD Islamic Studies.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 8″
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Black
Family
Parents & Siblings
Aamir Liaquat Hussain was born to Sheikh Liaquat Hussain and Ghousia Mehmooda Sultana. Aamir’s father was a Pakistani politician and political figure who was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from 1997 to 1999. His mother, Ghousia Mehmooda , was a columnist.
Wife & Children
First Marriage
Aamir Liaquat Hussai’s first wife name is Syeda Bushra Iqbal. She is an advocate in Pakistan high court and ex-producer at Geo TV. The couple has two children together. Their son is named Ahmed Aamir and their daughter’s name is Dua Aamir.
Aamir and Bushra got divorced in 2020. According to Bushra, he divorced her over a phone call. She took to Instagram describing their relationship as a “traumatic thing” for her and their children. She wrote,
However, divorcing me is one thing, but doing it infront of Tuba on call at her request, was perhaps the most painful and traumatic thing for my children and I. I rest my case to Allah.”
Second Marriage
Aamir got married for the second time in 2018 to Syeda Tuba Anwar, an actor, writer, and lifestyle influencer. After a time period of almost one and a half year, actress Tuba announced her divorce with Aamir through a social media post, which quoted,
With a heavy heart, I want to make people aware of a development in my life. My close family and friends are aware that after a separation of 14 months, it was evident that there was no hope for reconciliation in sight and I had to opt to take khula from court. I cannot express how difficult it has been but I trust Allah and His plans. I would appeal to everyone that my decision is respected during these testing times.”
Third Marriage
In 2022, Amir tied knot with 18 years old Syeda Dania Shah. Talking about how the two met, Amir narrated,
When we met for the first time, it was only for 28 minutes. It wasn’t a 28-day affair. Nothing of that sort ever happened. I visited Lodhran for an event. It was a Milad function organised by an affluent family. I also called Jahangir Tareen Sahab from Lodhran. He later invited me to his farmhouse. After Milad, we went to Lodhran’s Pir’s house. I didn’t know him. I discussed some personal affairs with him. He told me he will settle me with someone now but the only condition was that I wouldn’t get to see her before. When I met her, it was Dania. But when I did meet her, I came to know that when she was a kid and would cry, her parents would put on Aalim Online to calm her.
Adding to the conversation, Dania added,
I didn’t think he was real. To meet someone you have idealized since you were a kid, someone you have been obsessed with and he just appears in front of you; how would you feel?” I have also told him that if he wants to marry someone else, he should. I have given him permission to get married for the fourth time. It is not my right to stop him from tying the knot again. If he is happy with me and I love him enough, he’d stay with me. If I don’t, then he will find someone else and marry her.”
In an Instagram video, she stated that she had filed for divorce. Shah stated that she went to court to complete the legal process. Shah, Liaquat’s third wife, revealed that she had asked her husband for a khula (woman’s right to divorce). She went on to state that Liaquat was “worse than the devil” and was not as he appeared on television.
Career
Political
Hussain was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan for the first time in 2002 on the ticket of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement from NA-249 (Karachi-XI) seat, and was appointed Minister of State for Religious Affairs, Zakat, and Ushar Division in the Shaukat Aziz government in September 2004. In May 2005, Hussain, as the junior minister of Religious Affairs, urged Pakistani religious academics to publish a ‘Fatwa’ on suicide bombers. During a visit to Jamia Binoria in June 2005, he was attacked by furious youngsters. However, police denied that Hussain had been abused and said that the mob had just sung slogans. Hussain served as Minister of State for Religious Affairs until July 2007, when his party urged him to retire both as Minister and as a member of the National Assembly. According to an official statement, the party was dissatisfied with Hussain’s remarks about Salman Rushdie. He stepped out from politics in 2007. Later that year, the MQM dismissed him from the party. He founded the Memhooda Sultana Foundation. Hussain was named to the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Jordan’s yearly edition The 500 Most Influential Muslims from 2013 to 2015. Hussain was arrested by Sindh Rangers in August 2016, following an attack on media houses by MQM workers and the arrest of MQM leaders. After Hussain was charged with facilitation of hate speech but failed to appear in court, an Anti-Terrorism Court in Pakistan ordered the authorities to place his name on the Exit Control List in February 2017.
Entertainment
Hussain was a radio personality on FM101. For many years, he has also hosted Ramadan transmissions, including Suhur and Iftar. He began his television career with Pakistan Television Corporation but was quickly fired. In 2001, he became a founding member of Geo TV, where he hosted the religious show Aalim Online. Hussain left Geo in 2010 to become managing director of ARY Qtv and executive director of ARY Digital Network. There, he hosted the religious programme Aalim Aur Aalam. After rejoining Geo TV, he hosted Pehchan Ramazan in 2012 and Amaan Ramazan in 2013. He was appointed vice president of Geo TV in January 2014, and he presented the game programme Inaam Ghar. He joined Express Media Group in June 2014 as president and Group Editor of religious programming on Daily Express, and he presented Pakistan Ramazan. Hussain then returned to Geo TV, hosting Subh-e-Pakistan beginning in November 2014, and was named president of Geo Entertainment in November 2015. In 2016, he joined the BOL media company and began anchoring the current affairs talk show Aisay Nahi Chalay Ga. In 2017, he hosted Ramazan Mein BOL, and he also began hosting a ame show, Game Show Aisay Chalay Ga. In November 2017, he departed BOL. He joined Pakistan Television Corporation in 2019.
Hussain was set to make his Pakistani cinema debut in an upcoming film by Syed Noor, with Saima Noor in the lead role. He revealed in April 2019 that he will play Burhan Wani in Ayub Khoso’s upcoming film about the Kashmir crisis. In April 2020, he began anchoring “Jeeway Pakistan,” a game programme that airs on Express TV. In his TV show Khatmay Nabuwat in 2008, Hussain criticised the Ahmadi Community’s founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. The show’s guest academics claimed that everyone linked with the Ahmadi organisation should be killed for blasphemy. Within two days, two important Ahmadi community members were slain, one of them was a physician and the other a community leader. Hussain said on his TV show in 2010 that Pakistan’s recent losses in cricket matches were attributable to their new green shoe bottoms. Because green is the colour of the Pakistani flag and the Dome of Muhammad’s tomb, the green shoes were allegedly disrespectful to Islam, and the squad was evidently being divinely chastised. Hussain said that this was a religious issue. He was later chastised in the media for his opinions. A compilation of behind-the-scenes footage tapes showing Hussain using various profanities on the set of his show was released online in 2011. In the same video, he is seen laughing off a rape- topic, ridiculing his religious guests, singing Indian songs spontaneously, and referencing to Bollywood rape scenes. In his defence, Hussain accused Geo TV of fabricating the alleged phoney film in order to undermine his reputation, and claimed that the footage had to be modified and dubbed by “synchronisation masters.” According to The New York Times, Hussain himself stated, “It was my lighter side.”
Controversies
Allegations of Provoking Violence Against Ahmadis
On September 7, 2008, Aamir Liaquat Hussain dedicated an entire show to the Ahmadi community. The show was sceptical of the sect’s founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad Qadyani, and the guest researchers labelled everyone associated with the Ahmadi group “Wajib-ul-qatl” (meriting murder because of obscenity). After two days, two prominent Ahmadis were assassinated, one of them was a doctor and the other a group pioneer. He has later stated that there was a misunderstanding since “the board just used the word Wajib-ul-qatl (meriting murder) in reference to false prophets.” I’m sorry for the families, but it has nothing to do with me or anything said on my show.” In a show hosted by Aamir Liaquat Hussain and broadcast on Geo Television on December 22, 2014, a religious pastor, Syed Arif Shah Owaisi, declared Ahmadis to be Islam’s enemies. “This adversary is a typical antagonist and a foe of Pakistan as a whole.” Furthermore, this antagonist is the Qadiyani sect,” Owaisi remarked, using the correct name for Ahmadis. “They are the ones who are reviling the Holy Prophet” (PBUH). That opponent should be recognised by all Muslims.” Following Owaisi’s words, Aamir Liaquat reacted by gesticulating his head in defiance, as the crowd erupted in applause. The visiting pastor continued to use derogatory linguistic against the minority a mass for a few minutes as the TV demonstrators clapped in praise. After five days of the exhibition, an Ahmadi man, Luqman Ahmad Shehzad, was shot dead in Gujranwala. This was the second time Aamir Liaquat Hussain’s broadcast had been linked to Ahmadi attacks.
Cause of Defeat in a Cricket Match
On the scene presented on 29 January 2010, Aamir Liaquat Hussain promised that Pakistani group’s recent failures in Cricket matches were because to their new green shoe soles. With green being the colour of the Pakistani flag and the vault of Prophet Muhammad’s grave, the green soles were, as far as anyone knows, ill-bred in terms of Islam, and the group was clearly supernaturally rebuffed. He assured me that this was a belief issue. In the media, he was chastised for his views. Nadeem Paracha, a comedian, quipped, “Great. This should also indicate that the Pakistani team should stop playing on grass and the hockey team should stop spilling and dashing through green AstroTurf too?”