Īzhar has won an Amnesty International award for Panorama: The Secret Drone War.
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In May 2017, he won a BAFTA award for his work as producer on BBC series Muslims Like Us. In the same year, he also won 'Best Presenter' at the Grierson Awards for the same documentary series. In 2020, Azhar won the Royal Television Society 'Presenter of the Year' award for Hometown: A Killing. Spears was reported to have criticized the documentary, describing it as "hypocritical". In May 2021, Azhar presented BBC Two documentary The Battle For Britney: Fans, Cash, And A Conservatorship, reporting from California and Louisiana on the #FreeBritney movement, who claim music star Britney Spears is being "kept a virtual prisoner in her own home" through a conservatorship managed by her father.
ĭuring the same year, Azhar became a presenter on BBC Three show Plastic Surgery Undressed, alongside Vogue Williams. The docu-series went on to win several awards.
Huddersfield MP Barry Sheerman also criticized the programme, claiming it depicted the town as "a hotbed of violent crime". Yasser Yaqub's father Mohammed Yaqub, who featured in the series, claimed Azhar had attempted to "smear" his son's name. In 2019, Azhar also presented six-part BBC documentary series Hometown: A Killing, reporting on the police shooting of Yassar Yaqub in Huddersfield in 2017. In 2019, Azhar presented BBC documentaries The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On, A Black and White Killing: The Case that Shook America and The Best Pakistani Transgender Retirement Home. In February 2016, Azhar presented the BBC Three documentary Webcam Boys, spending a couple of months with men who make money from performing online sex shows. During filming he was shot at by the Taliban. In 2016, Azhar joined a police team of "Taliban Hunters" in Karachi, Pakistan, as part of documentary reporting for BBC Panorama. In 2015, he presented BBC documentary Hunting for Prince’s Vault and in September 2016, Azhar's debut book Prince Stories from the Purple Underground: 1958-2016 was published by Welbeck Publishing. Īzhar has written about and reported extensively on musician Prince. In August 2013, he investigated gay life in urban Pakistan for Assignment: Inside Gay Pakistan on the BBC World Service and on BBC Radio 4. In 2012, Azhar was part of a team reporting from Waziristan in Pakistan on US drone strikes on the Afghan border for a BBC Panorama special, The Secret Drone War. Īt university, Azhar gained a law degree and then returned to study broadcast journalism after a gap year.
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His father was a bus driver and a shop keeper who encouraged Azhar to go to university.
Azhar was born in 1980 and raised in Huddersfield in Yorkshire and is of British Asian background.
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