Nida Sameer is an anchor person of Geo News, the leading private news channel of Pakistan, which is also watched throughout the world by the Urdu speaking and understanding communities. Sameer also hosted a social welfare show, "Kehta hai dil" (My Heart Says) on the channel some years ago. As of 2010, she also hosts the show 51% on the Geo network, a "women oriented news-based magazine show." She started off as Nida Fatima, one of the first news readers during the pilot run of the GEO news channel, before being married to Mr. Sameer in 2006.
Sameer received her Masters in Mass Communication from Karachi University in 2001 and Young Development Professional Programme (YDPP) from NGORC (Aga Khan Foundation) Karachi in 2002. Later, she attained another masters degree in media and communications from School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London, on a British Foreign and Commonwealth Scholarship in 2005.
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