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 of 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 famous Pakistani movies, and lamenting why the Pakistani Cinema has lost its
original charm. In view of Pakistani cinema today, he doubts that it can maintain the norms to
match the values and needs of the country with regard to 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.