Shahid Malik, who served as a Lahore-based BBC World Service Correspondent from 1994 to 2007, is a known broadcast journalist and trainer.
Shahid had joined BBC Urdu in London in 1984, and, and, initially, produced a popular bilingual ‘English by Radio’ series. Later, he presented the weekly cultural sequence ‘Subras’ as well as ‘Sports Round-Up’ and also hosted the nightly current affairs programme ‘Jahan Numa’ which claimed a large audience in the sub-continent and parts of the Middle East.
He had an arrangement with PTV as their London Correspondent for four years, and, in 1991, supervised the BBC Radio’s Asian Network in Leicester, being responsible for transmissions in English and five Asian languages.
On return to Pakistan in 1994, Shahid worked as the BBC Correspondent for the Punjab province, and headed their news bureau in Lahore. Until 2017 he frequently appeared as an expert participant in ’Pakistan Desk’, a weekly current affairs spot of BBC RADIO 5.
Shahid Malik, who currently teaches Radio Journalism and English in Lahore, has a Master’s in English and a degree in Law from the University of the Punjab, along with a postgraduate diploma in ESFL from Bangor. He is a member of the London-based Chartered Institute of Linguists.
