Gharidah Farooqi (Urdu: غریدہ فاروقی) is a Pakistani television host and anchorperson who was once part of Pakistan's biggest media group, Geo News.
[1] She received her master's degree in International Relations from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan.
[3] As recent as 2024, 'Coalition For Women In Journalism', a New York-based non-profit organization, published an article showing a 'Timeline of Events' from 2016 to 2024 about organized harassment campaigns against Gharida Farooqi showing how journalists become victims of cross-fire among rival political parties in Pakistan.
[4] On 25 July 2017, Lahore police recovered a fifteen year old maid from Farooqi's home, where she had been allegedly kept in illegal detention and tortured.
[6] Gharida Farooqi was never convicted in a court of law in Pakistan of any alleged abuse of the child worker.