Mian Aamir Mehmood

Mr Mian Amer Mahmood is the founder and CEO of Dunya Media Group, which owns both Dunya News, a 24-hour news and current affairs channel launched in 2008 that brings coverage from across the country and Lahore News, also a 24-hour TV channel launched in 2016, that restricts its news coverage to Pakistan’s second largest city of Lahore with around 10 million population. He has a political and business education background. He served as mayor of Lahore for two consecutive four-year terms from 2001 to 2009. His politics – mostly with the rightwing Jamaat-e-Islami party – goes back to 1987 when he first got elected a city councillor in Lahore. Mr Mahmood is also one of the largest education entrepreneurs in Pakistan and owns the Punjab Group of Colleges, which established and manages three chartered universities, 330 colleges, 15 schools of Resource Academia chain, over 700 schools of Allied Schools chain and about 300 schools of the EFA Schools chain. The educational institutions are spread in almost 100 cities of Pakistan.