Ali Hashmi

Ali Hashmi, Born in Saudi Arabia on September 27, 1978 is a Pakistani crime show host., currently the anchor and producer of RAID, a reality crime show on the Pakistani channel Dawn News.

Career

Ali Hashmi did his Masters in Mass Communication from the University of Karachi in 2005 and started his career as a freelancer (such as News writing and reporting, Feature writing) and wrote many articles for multiple newspapers including Jung Newspaper. He joined Business Plus TV in mid 2005 and worked on a number of documentaries as well as did InterViews of well-known Politicians like Amin Fahim etc. He resigned from Business Plus TV in 2007 and joined Aaj TV in the following year.

Ali Hashmi is the first person to introduce the concept of a reality crime show in the Pakistani television industry and his first crime show was Benaqab on Aaj TV which resulted in a trend setter for all the News channels.

He resigned from Aaj TV in 2010.

Ali Hashmi joined Dawn News TV in 2011 as a Producer and currently hosts a program named "RAID". Ali is also an Investigative journalist.