Raju Jamil

Raju Jamil

Karachi-based TV personality, Zulqarnain Jamil Aali, popularly known as Raju Jamil, was a banker by profession, and retired as Senior Vice President/Head Social Media at UBL after 40 years’ service. He debuted on TV for the first time in 1967, appearing in a PTV play. He has acted in over 210 serials, 55 single plays, and 20 English stage plays. He successfully anchored the famous and well-known Weekend with Raju Jamil, a late-night TV show. While 

with UBL, he worked on deputation as GM Media, Pakistan Cricket Board for Pak Test Series in Australia in 1999–2000. Raju Jamil, since his teenage, has been an ardent admirer and supporter of Pakistani Cricket and Cinema. He has not only watched almost every Pakistani film since 1958 but remembers most of them; since 2005 he has been researching and writing about the famous Pakistani movies and lamenting on the lost original charm of Pakistani Cinema. In view of Pakistani cinema today, he doubts that it can maintain the norms to match the values and needs of the country regarding environment, religion, and society. In October 2015 Raju, as a member of the Governing Body, was elected as President of Anjuman Taraqqi e Urdu Pakistan. He was nominated by Aftab Ahmed whose tenure ended.